CEBU CITY—The Kilusang Pagbabago (KP) Visayas, a mass movement of President Duterte’s supporters, said the National Housing Authority (NHA) Region 7 has turned over 100 housing units on November 7 to Supertyphoon Yolanda survivors and beneficiaries in Bantayan town.
This is on top of 219 units turned over earlier under phase 2. A total of 450 units were finished, and now occupied by Yolanda survivors under phase 1. Supertyphoon Yolanda battered Northern Cebu and Leyte on November 8, 2013.
However, the KP team led by Rey Canoy, KP Cebu provincial officer, realized after site visits last week in northern Cebu that a lot has still to be done.
NHA records showed the magnitude involved the building of 22,423 units, with 15,348 already bidded out in 16 towns in Northern Cebu.
Meanwhile, KP Region 6 lead convener Fr. Jose Elmer Cajilig said he intended to correct a Facebook post, where a copy-pasted news story of what happened in Barangay Lacayon, Bugasong town, in Antique province, was superimposed with the words “fake news” in red.
This was attached to a statement signed by Assistant Secretary Gerald Anthony Gonzales of the Office of Presidential Assistant for Visayas (Opav) and posted in the Opav Facebook page last week.
Cajilig said he led the KP team that conducted the site visit on October 21 in Barangay Lacayon, Bugasong town in Antique. Local residents complained that, on October 20 a flood hit five barangays, affecting houses and rice fields.
The flood was caused by an unfinished Yolanda rehabilitation site in Lacayon. News about the incident affecting poor farmers was brushed aside as fake news by the Opav, Cajilig said.
In Tacloban City KP Region 8 lead convener Rico Cajife said there are still unfinished rehabilitation sites. The KP plans to hold a dialog with affected Yolanda survivors in coordination with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Yolanda.
The KP Visayas has embarked on the Yolanda rehabilitation-site visits in response to requests by affected Yolanda survivors. The KP is committed to monitor the implementation of projects as part of participatory governance.
“Realizing the large tasks ahead as we commemorate the fourth year since the super typhoon, we in KP Visayas will continue to monitor the Yolanda projects and do what we can to hasten implementation in coordination with the Inter-Agency Task Force on Yolanda,” Cajipe said.