Can’t they all just get along?
“Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery (PARR) Panfilo Lacson on Monday, November 8, criticized Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez for the ‘below par’ rehabilitation of his city a year after Typhoon Yolanda’s devastation,” reports Louis Bacani on Philstar.com.
During a multi-stakeholders policy forum, Lacson pointed out that “Tacloban City obtained PHP6.1 billion in projects, programs and activities with Romualdez receiving PHP230.4 million from the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the repairs of the city hall, public markets and civic centers.”
Lacson stated, “Let the numbers speak for themselves. Numbers don’t lie. It’s all there.”
Lacson then cited an instance when Romualdez supposedly “wanted to realign the funds that he requested and had been downloaded to Tacloban City for repairs of government centers.”
“That’s one example of hijacking the rehabilitation efforts,” Lacson said.
Lacon went on to say, “We will continue to extend our hand of cooperation to the mayor of Tacloban. We will not give up on Tacloban. Nobody will be left out in these rehabilitation efforts. But the local executives must do their share. When you need assistance for your constituents, you forget about your personal or political agenda.”
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