She can't be replaced: Marcos bids Ople goodbye

PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday led an emotional final farewell for Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Secretary Maria Susana "Toots" Ople, who passed away last week after battling breast cancer.

"If I do shed a tear, it is because it is such a sad day to know that Toots will not be here anymore and what a big gap she will leave not only to our friends, not only to our family, but to the millions of those who she took care of, who she loved, and who she worked for tirelessly and endlessly, and I speak endlessly because that is exactly what happened," Marcos said during the necrological services held for Ople at the Kalayaan Hall in Malacañang.