PRESSURED OTHER VILLAGE CHIEFS TO
EMULATE HIM
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
M’LANG, Cotabato – The village chief
in this landlocked town seemed to pressure other barangay chairmen after he
posted at public places the recipients of the monetary assistance given by the
government to the people.
Barangay Chairman Noah Zabel said
his actuation as the first village chief to post at the wall of the barangay
hall the names of each of the beneficiaries of the P5,000 from the Department
of Social Welfare & Development showed that there was no anomaly in the
selection of the recipients.
The 354 beneficiary-households out
of the 1,091households hailed from the poorest of the poor in the 5,700
populated village perched near the great Liguasan Marsh.
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SWANKY. The three million pesos swanky two-storey’s Dugong Barangay Hall in M’lang Cotabato (above photo). Other edifices (other photos) of the local government unit of Dugong. |
He cited that the financial figure of the
recipients did not include those members of the Pantawid
Pamilyang Pilipino Program popularly known as
4Ps who earlier received through their automatic teller machine (ATM) cards
their Social Amelioration Program (SAP) from the national
government.
“Ang
purpose ko dito sabi ko sa pag post sa mga beneficiaries sino gusto mag comment
e-report ninyo sa akin kung sino dito ang disqualified para mapag aralan natin
kung papaano natin iyon ang purpose ko doon,” he stressed in Filipino.
The P5,000 came from the government
as mitigation after President Rodrigo Duterte put Luzon into a virtual lock
down
Elective leaders in the Visaya and
Mindanao regions emulated the fiat of the president when he imposed it on
March 16 and extended it to end on April 30 this year.
Despite the non-inclusion of the 4Ps
members in the 375 payees who received the sum at the village gymnasium, Zabel
said he wished that all the members of the marginalized sectors in his
agricultural village availed the financial assistance from the government.
“Ang
sa akin sana lahat ng tao maka avail. Iyon mga nanga-nga-ilangan talaga”.
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| Author with Barangay Chairman Noah Zabel (left photo). Author with Council Members Asma Sabangan (above photo and his high school classmate) and Ali Tricky Kanapia. |
According to the law, the subsidy
shall be computed based on the prevailing regional minimum wage rates taking
into consideration the subsidy given under the DSWD’ s conditional cash
transfer (CCT) Program and the rice subsidy program.
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