Ending Aquino’s misrule of law

THE long-running mess that is the Land Transportation Office vehicle license plate anomaly hit the headlines again with the Supreme Court order stopping the Bureau of Customs from donating to the LTO some 300,000 plates seized by the BoC due to unpaid duties and taxes.

For those who missed this epitome of Aquino-era lawbreaking, the problem began in July 2013, when the LTO, in a contract signed by Transportation and Communications Secretary Joseph Emilio Aquinaldo Abaya, awarded the P3.8-billion license plate contract to Dutch-Filipino consortium PPI-JKG Philippines, Inc.