BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Militant groups are on the “watch mode” as typhoon victims await the implementation of the P27.4-billion typhoon rehabilitation plan of Iloilo province.
Hope Hervilla, chairperson of Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-Panay), said yesterday they had organized groups to monitor the implementation of aids from the national government.
“We will monitor it by going directly to the victims and ask them,” Hervilla said.
Hervilla also challenged the government and its implementing agencies to use the fund to provide the typhoon victims with housing and livelihood.
“All we ask is a transparent implementation of the rehab fund,” she said.
The regional chairperson of Bayan-Panay also slammed the sluggish release of rehabilitation and recovery fund.
“Super typhoon ‘Yolanda’ transpired eight months ago,” she recalled. “And yet the rehab fund is still being processed. The government is a failure in delivering early recovery and rehabilitation to the typhoon victims,” she said.
Today, Bayan-Panay will hold a regional conference at the Jubilee Hall of St. Clement’s Church in La Paz district here with 100 participants, mostly typhoon victims.
Hervilla said they would assess the overall situation of the typhoon victims and how the government responded to their early recovery process.
Hervilla said the conference is spearheaded by their alliance group called Kusog sang Pumoluyo-Panay.
After the conference, the group will march to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 6 in Molo district to hold a rally.
DSWD here is the regional arm of the government in undertaking relief operations./PN
