LEGAZPI CITY: First District of Leyte Rep. Martin Ro-mualdez, who is visiting this city to help distribute relief assistance to families left homeless by typhoon Nona, said President Benigno Aquino 3rd should learn to be humble and let go of his pride as leadership, especially in cases of disaster management and response measures, requires maturity, not egocentricity.
“There should be no pride and he (President Aquino) should learn humility and admit his mistake. He should accept the fact that more than 10,000 people were killed in Leyte when Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Visayas. He should stop pretending [that everything is] spick and span,” Romualdez said when asked what he had learned from his district’s Yolanda experience.
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