Class suit :
by: dodong
The survivors and victims of the super typhoon Yolanda
mostly from Leyte will now go to Court after they’ve been in the Picket
Court/streets to protest the government’s inaction on their plight to charge
the government of Criminal Neglect. A group calling itself the "Tindog
People’s Network", composed of survivors of the typhoon, have announced
that it is filing a class suit against the Aquino administration to hold
criminally liable. The group said it wants to hold President Benigno Simeon Aquino
III and his government accountable for the government’s dismal disaster
preparedness, rescue and relief, and rehabilitation efforts.
The news from Tacloban City and other areas savaged by the
typhoon remains the same. The United Nations’ resident coordinator of the
relief effort said millions of victims still do not have adequate shelter.
Yolanda destroyed many houses and flattened the City and other areas have not
been rebuilt, there is urgency in the situation 100 days after
disaster struck, the government is still unable to reach out to all typhoon-affected
communities. Aid is arriving in trickles and basic services are still
non-existent in many villages.
The planned filing of the class suit follows a series of
mass actions staged in Tacloban by the so-called “people surge” who are also protesting the truthfulness of the
survey result after a survey found that an overwhelming number of Yolanda’s
victims were satisfied with the government’s actions before, during and after
the typhoon hit. The Manila-based press which never cares to report in the most
part of the protest is hopefully be sympathetic to the victims and the
government who remains unperturbed would this time be emphatic and it's about
time that PNoy realizes the people has had enough, and hopefully he can be
bothered to comment on the class suit and be held urgently answerable to
dispense the foreign aid/donations right now to the people and not for hoarding as people suspect
the fund to be used for the coming election comes 2016. Tindog’s members were un aware and
not interviewed for the survey. People who have lost nearly everything have decided
that the best chance they would have in getting aid from government is holding
rallies and asking a court to decree it. I also support the group suing PNoy and
his government for criminal neglect. Let him be answerable to his Noynoying or for his sins of omission and commission if there are any.
UN reports declare that some food and non-food relief
goods sent to the devastated areas never reached the victims. Goods donated
were seen being sold at high prices at the Puregold supermarkets. Cash
donations hardly were received by the victims; so the people are asking who hold
now the donated funds, where did the money go. Did the government officials
benefit from all these? What would the people do so they should go after PNoy government?
People suspect the funds for the Yolanda relief were diverted to
a treasure-chest
so it’s timely that a case is filed to warrant an investigation
whether DMB has a hand on the foreign aid fund considering that this office needs to replenish their expenses in lieu of DAP/PDAF dis allowance. The government’s continued disregard of
the victims’ plight buried the victims deeper into the quagmire of poverty,
hunger and debt.
The victims have reason to demand what is rightfully theirs.
We all know that there have been a lot of donations coming from different
countries in cash and in kind but nothing seem to have been given to most of
the survivors. If you are one of them and you know that you’re supposed to
receive that relief, are you not going to ask for it? Then the action to do
should be to make noise and inform the people about the truth that most of the
foreign donations have not reached them at all. Let the world know about this.
Hold the PNoy culpable by ferreting out the truth. Proceed the filing of the class suit for criminal negligence. This is my help to the Filipino people by educating them, in closing I am quoting parts of the inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln,"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to ......" to make our country great and properous.
