PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Tuesday said he would put the local disaster agency under his office to streamline the government’s calamity response.
“There has been a suggestion that has been going around for many years now that we will put the disaster response team, the national response team under the Office of the President,” he told a news briefing in Tacloban City in central Philippines, based on a transcript sent by the presidential palace.
The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council is under the Office of Civil Defense, and the state could not ask agencies to “respond any more quickly,” Mr. Marcos said. “We are continuing to refine the procedures, to refine the processes, the organization, so that we will do even better than we have so far,” he added.
“I come here because I must commemorate those uncounted dead that up to now we do not know how many that number is,” he said. “We must come to these commemorations so that we will remember those who we were told not to remember.”
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