BACOLOD CITY: Bacolod City Mayor Albee Benitez said on Monday that he will appeal to Sen. Grace Poe to hasten the passage of the Negros Electric and Power Corp. (NEPC) franchise.

Benitez made the statement as the city recently experienced a spate of power outages, aggravating the extreme heat the residents have been enduring because of the El Niño phenomenon.

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