From Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to Ferdinand E. Marcos International Airport.
This is how Negros Oriental Representative Arnolfo Teves Jr. wants the premiere gateway to the country to be called under his House Bill No.610, which states that “it is more appropriate to rename it (NAIA) to the person who has contributed to the idea and execution of the said noble project.”
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He cited that the project was created during the presidency of late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., the father of the incumbent chief executive.
In 1987, the Manila International Airport (MIA) was renamed to Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) through Republic Act No. 6639 during the term of late President Cory Aquino.
It was named after late senator and opposition leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. who was assassinated in the airport when he returned to the country on August 21, 1983.
Aquino was the staunchest critic of the late president.
“It is more appropriate that it would bear the name of the person who has contributed and left a legacy that makes the Philippines a center of international and domestic air travel, who has instituted and built or conceptualized the project making it the pride of our country,” Teves said in a statement on Tuesday.
The congressman called on Marcos to prove during his tenure that he can be at par, if not better, than his father.
“I would like to see President BBM to be at par or even better than his father, which I think kayang-kaya niya naman (he can do it) and is very likely,” he said.
Marcos Sr., Teves said, was “one of the best, if not the best president we ever had.”
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