A plan of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) to buy out the Metro Rail Transit Corp. (MRTC) is unlikely to happen as Sen. Sergio Osmeña 3rd expressed objection to a P53-billion item in the 2015 proposed budget intended for the purchase.

Osmeña, during a Senate finance committee hearing on the budget of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), on Tuesday expressed doubt that the government could even carry out its plan to buy out MRTC since the company has no intention to sell in the first place.

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