Roxas said he considered the moniker as a joke that must not be given any malice.
“Parang joke nga eh. Sinabi niya sa akin, Secretary of Transportation ka, dapat ipagmaneho mo ako. Sabi ko, okay lang,” Roxas told reporters after attending a congressional assessment of the government’s response to Typhoon Yolanda.
Roxas was the chief of the Department of Transportation and Communications from 2011 to 2012.
Revilla even briefly attended the hearing where Roxas was one of the resource persons, but the two were not able to interact.
In a privilege speech last Monday, Revilla called Roxas “Boy Pick-Up” for supposedly driving him to Malacañang to discuss the impeachment trial of former Chief Justice Renato Corona with President Benigno Aquino III.
Roxas maintained that there was nothing irregular with what he did, saying it was a way of reaching out to a former colleague.
“Wala namang masama. Sa personal ko, tiningnan ko ito bilang pagpapakumbaba, bilang personal outreach to my former colleague,” he said.
He also belied Revilla’s claim that he concealed his plate number, saying he never uses his official plate number in the first place. — Andreo Calonzo/KBK, GMA News
