Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
IN order for public utilities such as electricity, water, transportation and transportation systems to be planned, operated and regulated as productively as possible for all concerned stakeholders, the interests of end consumers, who are arguably the most important stakeholders, need to be represented effectively. What consumers and the larger process do not need is for a bunch of ignorant clowns to appoint themselves the guardians of consumer welfare and then proceed to carry out that self-assigned mission by engaging in immature publicity stunts.
Unfortunately, that is what we've got here in the Philippines, at least as far as the electricity sector is concerned. The group playing the role of the ignorant clowns calls itself "Power for People," or P4P, and seems to be a motley collection of representatives of various left-wing party-list groups, individual bottom-tier political aspirants, and perhaps a few sincere idealists whose voices might add something to the general discussion if they hadn't fallen in with the wrong crowd.
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