THE resignation of Commissioner Rufino “Ruffy” Biazon, of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) has raised public clamor for legislators implicated in the priority development assistance fund (PDAF) to also do the same, but some senators insisted that legislators are in a different situation.

Senate deputy minority leader Vicente Sotto 3rd said that the situation of Biazon is diffident from the legislators accused of mishandling the pork barrel funds because unlike the customs chief who is appointed, the senators and congressmen were elected by the people.

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