PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, May 9 (PNA) -– The Land Transportation Franchising and
Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has placed on a 30-day preventive suspension 15 units
of the Rural Transit Management, Incorporated (RTMI).
The RTMI owns and
operates a fleet of buses plying from this city to as far as Cagayan de Oro
City and Ozamis City via the cities of Pagadian and Dipolog.
LTFRB Provincial Head
Swilbery Baybayan said Friday that the suspension order issued by the Board was
effective Thursday, May 8.
Baybayan said the 15
suspended units are among the buses of RTMI that ply the Zamboanga City-Cagayan
de Oro City via Pagadian City route and vice-versa.
The preventive
suspension order came 11 days after the LTFRB discovered that one of RTMI’s
buses which figured in an accident was operating without a franchise.
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The accident which
took place last April 27 in Barangay Anonang, Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur
resulted in the death of six people, including a three-month old baby, and
injured 16 others.
Aside from franchise,
LTFRB Regional Director Abdulgafar Mohammad disclosed in an earlier interview
that the bus involved in the accident does not have Official Receipt (OR) as
well as Certificate of Registration (CR).
Baybayan said the
LTFRB has given the RTMI 30 days to present the 15 suspended buses for motor
vehicle inspection before the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
Baybayan said the
RTMI was also given 72 hours to submit a show cause why their Certificate of
Public Convenience should not be suspended, cancelled or revoked.
He said the Board is
sending a team to confiscate the for-hire plates of the suspended buses. (PNA)
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