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BY PRINCE GOLEZ
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Friday, June 30, 2017
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MANILA – A senator is pushing for the creation of a government fund for the rehabilitation of the conflict-torn Marawi City.
“Bangon Marawi Fund” may be drawn from the P21.8-billion calamity fund under the 2017 national budget, according to Juan Edgardo Angara, ways and means committee chairman.
Planning for a post-conflict scenario is the “toughest mission,” Angara said, adding that Marawi needs to be rebuilt “block by block.”
The “infrastructure, social [and] economic” resources needed for the recovery must be identified, the senator said.
“I hope that someone is doing needs assessment right now,” he said. “This early, there must be a group running the numbers, no matter how sketchy, on how much is needed to bring Marawi back on its feet.”
Bangon Marawi funding for next year may be included in the 2018 national budget, which Malacañang said President Rodrigo Duterte will submit to Congress on the fourth Monday of July, said Angara.
The P6-billion Quick Response Fund and the National Disaster and Risk Reduction and Management Fund (P15.8 billion for this year) are funding source options, too, if there are terrorist attacks, Angara said.
But “appropriating funds is the easy part,” he noted. “The hard part is seeing to it that the funds are quickly but rightly and honestly spent.”/PN
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