PRESIDENTIAL wannabe Rodrigo Duterte’s main road to industrialization is the revival of the steel industry. He’s the only candidate for president who has made this perceptive proposal to create more jobs and if just for this, and if people could play deaf to his cursing and ignore his disregard for human rights and support for the New People’s Army, then he deserves support.

There was once the Iligan Integrated Steel Mill hatched during the time of the late President Marcos and managed by the Jacinto family. The National Development Corporation took over the project when the Jacintos failed to pay their loan, and gave the management to Rolando Salac Narciso of Butuan City, a Master of Business Management graduate.

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