Malacañang on Monday said the public should not take literally what President Benigno Aquino 3rd said in jest that he would have himself and Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya run over by a train if the project extending the Light Railway Transit (LRT) to Cavite will not be completed in 2015.

“The statement should not be taken literally,” Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. said as he referred to a speech made by the President in Dasmariñas City in Cavite in April 2013.

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