Have We Done Enough?
A State of National Calamity has been declared.
All government agencies have been mobilized.
A prize freeze on all basic goods has been issued.
President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday declared a state of national calamity and vowed to mobilize assistance for victims of the worst storm to hit his presidency.
He said he declared the state of calamity to start the mechanisms from which the government could get additional relief funding.
“I need to ask myself. Did the government do enough to prevent this kind of a tragedy? I don’t think I can accept that we have done everything,” President Noynoy Aquino told evacuees at Cagayan de Oro Central School during a lightning visit to the disaster zone four days after Tropical Storm “Sendong” struck.
“I know we could have done more.” He added.
