Stop fire trucks deal, DILG urged

A lawyer on Tuesday urged the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to block the “brazen attempt” of some officials to push the allegedly anomalous fire truck deal that prompted President Rodrigo Duterte to dismiss former Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno.

In a letter sent to DILG Officer-in-Charge Catalino Cuy, Leo Romero said that officials of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) and the Austrian company Rosenbauer International AG are trying to “countermand the legal position of the DILG and the official directive of the President” on the contract.