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Gov’t task force on Guimaras asked: Where’s
P 227 million rehab funds?

The militant fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Tuesday asked the government backed Task Force Solar Oil Spill (SOS) led by Task Force SOS chair Rafael Coscolluela about the P 227 million allocated for the rehabilitation program in the oil spill ravaged Guimaras Strait.

Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap pressed Coscolluela to explain the status of the P 227 million Guimaras rehabilitation fund recommended by the task force during a meeting among TF members held at the Office of the Civil Defense of the National Disaster Coordinating Council last July 11, 2007

“So what’s the real score? We want a complete detail and report if indeed the government released the proposed fund and have it distributed accordingly to the budgetary requirements of different agencies and such huge amount of taxpayers money were really used to provide help to the affected people, including the rehabilitation of Guimaras,” the fisherfolk leader said.

The Pamalakaya chair who was in Guimaras last week said victims of the oil spill told him that until now no projects have been undertaken by the national government and the Palace created Task Force in the oil spill ravaged island province.

“I was shocked to learn that the government has not accomplished anything for the people of Guimaras. Their efforts were limited to one-shot monitoring of people’s blood pressure and identification of possible respiratory diseases and distribution of paracetamol,” Hicap added.

Hicap said on July 2, the government task force held a meeting to review, re-evaluate and finalize the revised Work and Financial Plan submitted by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Reform (BFAR) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Coscolluella reduced the proposed budget of P 302 million to P 277.728 million, saying the disapproved items amounting to P 74.272 million will be forwarded to the Office of the President for approval.

Pamalakaya’s Hicap said the approved items are the livelihood projects required by the budget for the Office of Agriculture Secretary ( P 35 M), BFAR ( P 55 M), DENR waste disposal management (P 8.657 M), coastal rehabilitation (P 57 M) and Department of Health’s disease surveillance, support operations, monitoring and evaluation (P 22 million).

Meanwhile, Bayan Muna party list Rep. Teodoro Casiño is set to file a House Resolution urging lawmakers to investigate the current predicament of Guimaras oil spill victims after learning that 125,000 claimants from Guimaras and 7,000 claimants in Iloilo were rejected by the London-based International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund (IOPCF).

On the other hand, Pamalakaya said it would ask a group of lawyers and experts whether they could question the decision of the IOPCF rejecting the claims of 133,000 victims or they could file criminal case against the IOPCF for denying justice to the victims of Guimaras oil spill. #

posted by: GerryCorpuz at 06:04 | link | comments (2) |

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#1  17 December 2007 - 04:21

 

gloria makapagal aroyo should resign becaus she is a liar person.what she knows is corrupt our incme

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#2  18 December 2007 - 00:10

 

Salamat po sa inyong comment. High crimes of corruption is Mrs. Arroyo's bread and butter

GerryCorpuz

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