CABANATUAN CITY — Presidential sister Sen. Imee Marcos urged on Sunday people behind the proposed sovereign wealth fund to instead focus on addressing the skyrocketing prices of consumer goods and “degenerative agriculture.”
Marcos who delivered a total of P7.5-worth of Assistance to Indigents in Crisis Situations (AICS) in Science City of Munoz, Talavera town, and this city said it was good that the Government Service Insurance System and Social Security System were already removed from the list of funders “but the bill remains ambiguous.”
She also delivered P5-million fund for agriculture project in the municipality of Talavera and 1,000 Noche Buena packs with vegetables from north Luzon and toys for three villages in this city.
“Unang-una, palagay ko ang dapat tutukan talaga e hindi na muna yung investment-investment.Tutukan muna natin ang pagtaas ng presyo at kakulangan ng pagkain, at ang hirap na dinadanas ng ating mga magsasaka,” Marcos said, noting that farmers, including onion growers, and those in Ilocos Norte have the same predicaments.
“Ang problema natin sa irigasyon, mga bulok na ang Pantabangan, mga luma na, Magat lahat ‘yan lahat luma na at ang tatay ko pa ang nagpatayo e siyempre pag nakadaan na ang 50 na taon ang tawag diyaan e talagang for replacement na,” Marcos said.
Overused agricultural lands, she said, are becoming less productive.
“Maraming-marami tayong problema sa agrikultura kaya para sa akin, bago tayo sumabak diyan sa Maharlika, kung anu-anong investment sovereign ek-ek e pwede ba yung problemang pangkaraniwan na hinaharap natin araw-araw yun muna tutukan natin?” Marcos added.
Filed by House Speaker Martin Romualdez, the proposed measure to create the multi-billion Maharlika Wealth Fund is being supported by presidential son and Imee’s nephew House Senior Majority Leader Sandro Marcos and several allies at the House of Representatives.
