A LAWMAKER on Wednesday called on the House Committee on Transportation to investigate the Duterte administration’s planned phaseout of public utility jeepneys (PUJs) under a modernization program.

Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate, in airing his appeal to fellow lawmakers, contrasted the plan to the government’s P27-billion subsidy to two giant Japanese car companies.

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