MANILA (PNA) — Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo on Wednesday said he is arranging for the departure of the remaining former hostages for Hong Kong, China via a chartered flight.

Robredo said this as two Chinese nationals who were hurt during the 11-hour hostage drama at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila last Monday were flown to Hong Kong Wednesday afternoon.

Lu Kang Bun, 67; and Chang Kwok Chu, 40, were allowed to fly back to Hong Kong as physicians at the Manila Doctors Hospital (MDH) in Manila have declared that they are now fit to travel, the report added.

From the hospital, the two will be escorted to the airport. The two were among the several Chinese nationals who had to endure the 11-hour hostage crisis last Monday, where nine people, including hostage-taker, were killed.

Asked about calls for resignation due to command responsibility, Robredo said he serves at the pleasure of President Benigno C. Aquino III.

“If the President says so, I’m willing to do so,” Robredo told reporters in an ambush interview at the DILG Main Office in Diliman, Quezon City.

Earlier, Malacanang brushed off calls of an opposition lawmaker urging several Cabinet secretaries of President Aquino to resign following the hostage crisis that killed eight tourists.

House Minority leader Edcel Lagman has urged Local Government Secretary Robredo and two officials of the Presidential Communications Group Ricky Carandang and Herminio “Sonny” Coloma to resign, citing their incompetence in handling the hostage-taking staged by former police officer Rolando Mendoza.

“Instead of doing the blame game, for now, let us leave it with the investigation process,” Lacierda said.

Lacierda defended Robredo amid criticisms, saying that the DILG secretary should be given credit for monitoring the 12-hour hostage-taking since the very start.

Robredo admitted there were “lapses” as to how authorities handled the 11-hour hostage crisis in Quirino Grandstand in Manila, where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed.

“Our agreement with police officers is to maintain the management of the crisis at the low level to be controlled by the ground commander,” Robredo said.