SONA ‘quiet’ on lake clean-up

A lawmaker on Tuesday hailed President Rodrigo Duterte’s “concern for the environment and the preservation of the country’s natural resources” that he articulated in his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday.

Lito Atienza, Buhay party-list representative and senior deputy minority leader, however, said he was “very disappointed that he did not mention anything about cleaning up Laguna de Bay and all bodies of water of illegal fishpens and fish cages which he had ordered during his first SONA.”