ROXAS City – In this city, no one will die from hunger, declared Mayor Ronnie Dadivas.
The city government launched “Bugas Para sa Taga-Roxas Food Security Program” on April 15 simultaneous with the city’s commemoration of President Manuel A. Roxas Day.
It was on April 15, 1948 when President Roxas, the fifth president of the Philippines (1946-1948), died of a heart attack while speaking during a visit to the then Clark Air Base in Pampanga. He was 56.
According to Dadivas, each family in the city will get 10 kilos of rice monthly or a total of 120 kilos for the whole year.
“Ang city government ara pirme nagaalalay sa inyo kinahanglanon, labi na subong nga naga-atubang guihapon kita sang coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Sa Roxas City wala sang mapatay sa gutom. Ululupod kita magabangon,” said Dadivas.
The proper health protocols – wearing of facemask and face shield and social distancing – will be observed during the rice distribution, he stressed.
It was in honor of President Roxas that the then capital town of Capiz province was renamed Roxas City under Republic Act No. 603 on April 11, 1951.
Roxas, who was born in Capiz on Jan. 1, 1892, took his oath as president on July 4, 1946./PN
