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Sotto and Villar later made peace after the heated exchange during the chamber’s discussion on the bicameral conference committee report on the bill seeking to modernize the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), the ratification of which was rejected over the insertion of an amendment that would authorize firemen to purchase and bear guns.
It began when Villar asked to clarify how the Senate voted on the motion to adopt and ratify the bicam report, and if the vote of Senator Christopher “Bong” Go had been included in the count.
Go, who was not in plenary or online during the voting, would have agreed to ratify the bill since he was also the proponent of arming firefighters.
“Mr. Senate President, I am not talking of Mr. Go now. I’m just talking that you always say that ‘you should be here.’ How can we be there? We’re seniors. We’re not allowed to get out of our home. Maswerte ka na senior ka, nandiyan ka, pinapayagan ka,” Villar said.
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Senator Cynthia Villar is pushing the government to allow fully vaccinated senior citizens to go out by June 1.
Senator Cynthia Villar, chairperson of the Senate agriculture and food panel, during the hybrid hearing of the Senate Committee of the Whole on the government's decision to open up the
A resident of Parañaque City gets vaccinated against COVID-19 on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/MANILA BULLETIN)
This, as Las Piñas City Representative Camille Villar daughter of Senator Cynthia Villar announced that she will raffle off a house and lot and other prizes for inoculated residents of the city.
Senator Panfilo Lacson said the government, as well as the private sector, “should use all legal and creative means possible” to address the public’s reluctance to get jabbed.
“A chance at winning in the lottery and other creative incentives to attract more Filipinos to get themselves vaccinated – these are good moves by the government, both national and local, and even the private sector, to attain herd immunity at the soonest possible time,” Lacson said in a statement on Friday, May 28.