As if it was not bad enough that the city concedes that it could never be “prepared or ready enough” to handle the calamity of a supertyphoon scenario, it could not even summon the political will to relocate all informal settlers along the water ways and the dump site as a pre-disaster strategy. In a local forum, Engr. Jose Chiu, Executive Director of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council, cited the local government’s limitations on how to relocate the informal settlers whose lives are on imminent danger aside from the fact that their residential structures obstruct the rivers, drainage system and creeks contributing to the rapid rise of flood water in the poblacion. HELPLESS - City canât relocate squatter, dump site - NegrosChronicle.com
The typhoon will take care of relocating them off the waterways like the last time. Excessive rain + small river + slums = relocation of bodies to the ocean. It's not like typhoons just pop up out of nowhere. They have time to relocate them to shelters away from the river for a night. A bit of preventative measures will go a long way. And it's not like they haven't been presented ways of warning people of flooding rivers. I think the government might see them as a problem a typhoon can deal with. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
In Cebu near the port there were a lot of squatters. A few years ago there was a fire that burnt all their dwellings to the ground. My wife thought it was arson by the local gov. They have not returned. If the squatters can vote then there is no good reason for the LGU to chase them out.
