MAGUINDANAO (Mindanao Examiner / 22 Mar) – A Muslim party list group on Thursday urged the release of funds to help feed thousands of villagers displaced by hostilities between security and rebel forces in the southern Philippines.
The Suara Bangsamoro party said the funds are important to aid the refugees in at least 8 villages in North Cotabato’s Midsayap town, where troops and Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels clashed last month.
The group urged the North Cotabato provincial council to release the funds.
“If the local government has become so helpless in ending the wars in Mindanao, we are, at the least, hoping that they do not, at this point, prolong the agony of the displaced families by coming short in releasing such fund,” Zaynab Ampatuan, who chairs the Suara Bangsamoro party list group, said in a statement sent to the Mindanao Examiner newspaper.
Ampatuan appealed to the Provincial Development Coucil of Cotabato to allocate more funds to help the refugees. The province has 120.8 million pesos supplemental budget. (With a report from Mark Navales)
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