Malacañang is going in right direction
In the vicinity of Fairview on the way towards SM and Robinson’s, one passes by a relatively long bridge at the bottom of which could have been a river in the past. The supposed river is now dry and a densely populated place. Someone with a nice lawyer, goons and other hirelings, collect rent or sell parcels of that dry river bed. To make the river bed a homely and respectable place, it was dubbed by this “owner” and possibly his family, as Fair Lane. Sounds like a wealthy subdivision, no? The owner has an enemy. The enemy also has lawyers and hired goons, etc. When Ondoy came, these two quarreling owners became invisible. Naturally, the river bed was first to be inundated with powerfully rushing flood waters. Ondoy did not wait for the residents to haul their appliances and houses. The residents were even surprised why suddenly everyone was in panic, shouting, Malapit Na!!! Gissiiiing!!! Likaaaas!!! What was happening to Fairlane Village?
Most of the homes went stampeding with the surface runoff water together with personal belongings. And now the owner of the river bed is collecting rent again. Dear Pres. Arroyo, Sec. Teodoro, Sec. De Castro, could you please have these owners of our river beds arrested and exiled to the gallows for the rest of their lives? How many people are they fooling and how many will suffer from the acts of these evil doers?
Finally, the Office of the President is wizening up to the impact of calamity not only in Metro Manila but on a national scale. On October 15, 2009, Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed an Executive Order stopping squatters or informal settlers in Metro Manila and other provinces’ riverbanks. This dovetails with our recommendation to remove and not to allow these settlers anymore from living in the sewerages, major or minor rivers or any place at the bank of a body of water.
It is only hoped that Malacañang will do the same to our sewerages. But understandably, that is the problem of Chairman Bayani Fernando of the MMDA, that he heads and the DPWH.
16/10 10:14AM
GMA orders relocation of waterway settlers
MANILA, Philippines – President Arroyo will implement the forced relocation of thousands of families living on riverbanks and other high-risk areas in Metro Manila and nearby provinces even if it would mean losing the political support of local government officials, presidential spokesman Cerge Remonde said yesterday. Read the rest of the article here.
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