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MANILA – The Department of Transportation and Communications is looking into the disruption in the issuance of driver’s license cards at the Land Transportation Office.
“We understand the sentiment of our drivers seeking and renewing their licenses for the inconvenience caused by the temporary glitch at LTO,” Transport Secretary Manuel ‘Mar’ Roxas said in a statement.
“We are conducting an investigation why AMPI made the unauthorized change without our approval; we expect LTO operations back to normal before the end of the week,” he said.
Amalgamated Motor Philippines Inc. is the private contractor of LTO for the issuance of driver’s license cards. AMPI’s contract expired in 2006, but the company remains the supplier by virtue of a Quezon City Regional Trial Court order stopping an auction the Aquino administration had scheduled in December 2010.
The same court on June 1, 2012 issued another writ of preliminary injunction prohibiting the DOTC from bidding out the DOTC-LTO IT Infrastructure Project.
“We directed all our regional offices to inform the public of the specific offices that are able to issue the regular drivers’ license cards and those that are not able to do so,” Assistant Secretary Virgie Torres said.
“We have also directed those offices that are not able to issue the cards to issue temporary drivers’ licenses instead,” she said.
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