Moises Padilla evacuees get local government’s support

Moises Padilla Mayor Ella Celestina Garcia-Yulo led the Nov. 5 distribution of food packs and medicines to 1,046 evacuees at Nacuruhan Elementary School which included the evacuees at Binata-an Elementary School, Oway-oway church, and at Santos-Santos Center, all in Barangay Quintin Remo.

Garcia-Yulo was joined by town councilors Dowen Michael Ogatis, Joenes Frias, and Cipriano Remo, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 6 representatives as well as the Social Welfare and Development Office of the town, the Philippine Army, Philippine National Police, Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO), and officials of Barangay Quintin Remo.

The mayor thanked Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson and DSWD Region VI for their support to the local government in providing assistance to the evacuees.

She also lamented on the recent armed encounter saying that it is Filipinos who are turning against each other and that the victims of such conflicts are always civilians and children.

It can be recalled that the joint troops of the 62nd and 79th Infantry Battalions of the Philippine Army engaged in an hour-long clash with the NPA on November 3, at Barangay Quintin Remo which resulted to the death of two soldiers while wounding four others.* (Condrado D. Garcia)