{"id":31209,"date":"2014-11-09T09:33:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T01:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=31209"},"modified":"2014-11-10T05:36:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T21:36:41","slug":"govt-not-superman-yolanda-rehab-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/11\/09\/govt-not-superman-yolanda-rehab-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t not \u2018superman\u2019 \u2013 Yolanda rehab czar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery Panfilo Lacson, updates members of Malacanang Press Corps on the rehabilitation efforts in the Yolanda stricken provinces in the Visayas during a press briefing held at Malaca\u00f1ang. (Photo by Benhur Arcayan\/Malaca\u00f1ang Photo Bureau)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Rehabilitation czar, Panfilo Lacson on Saturday said that the government is neither \u201comnipotent\u201d nor \u201csuperman\u201d to immediately solve all the problems brought by Super Typhoon \u201cYolanda\u201d last year.<\/p>\n

The statement was made despite the criticisms on the government\u2019s alleged snail-paced rehabilitation efforts. Some were even claiming that they have not yet received any help from the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi totoo yun. Ang Tacloban City sila yung nakatanggap ng isa kung hindi man yung pinakamalaki na financial assistance sa pagpapagawa ng kanilang city hall, public market\u2026\u201d he said in an interview.<\/p>\n

(That\u2019s not true. Tacloban City is among those who received one of biggest financial assistance in the rehabilitation of their city hall and public market.<\/p>\n

\u201cKatunayan ang natanggap na ng Tacloban so far maski wala pa yung approved na plano, P251 million. Yung ibang lugar like yung Guiuan, mga P101 million. Yung ibang lugar ganun din mas mababa pa\u2026\u201d\u00a0 said Lacson.<\/p>\n

(In fact, They have received P251 million even without the approved plan. Other places like Guiuan (received) some P101 million, while other received the same or even less.)<\/p>\n

Lacson is left wondering why protests and complaints have been raised against the government\u2019s rehabilitation efforts, despite this fact.<\/p>\n

\u201cTanunging natin ang mga sarili natin, bakit parating may reklamo sa Tacloban? Bakit sa ibang lugar wala naman tayong nakitang nagreklamo\u2026\u201d Lacson\u00a0 said, adding that in some areas, the\u00a0 mayors either belong\u00a0 to the\u00a0 opposition or\u00a0 not part of the\u00a0 Aquino administration.<\/p>\n

(Why don\u2019t we ask ourselves why there are always complaints coming from Tacloban? Why don\u2019t we have any complaints in other places?)<\/p>\n

Lacson is also calling on all the officials involved in the rehabilitation program of the government to help each other rather than continue politicking.<\/p>\n

\u201cMagtulungan na lang sa halip na isipin yung pulitika. Unahin na muna natin ang kapakanan ng mga survivors\u2026 Humingi ka ng tulong, isipin mo ang kapakanan ng kababayan mo sa halip na sipin mo pa yung kalaban sa pulitika na baka hindi ka tulungan. We are there to help\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Lacson said.<\/p>\n

(Let\u2019s help (each other) instead of thinking of politics. Let the well-being of the survivors be considered first. When asking for help, think of the well-being of your countrymen instead of thinking about your political rivals. We are there to help.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 Rehabilitation czar, Panfilo Lacson on Saturday said that the government is neither \u201comnipotent\u201d nor \u201csuperman\u201d to immediately solve …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":31189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[5546,2939],"class_list":["post-31209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-lacson","tag-rehabilitation","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}