DESIRABLE. That appears to be the Northville 6 relocation center for informal settlers whose homes have to give way to the construction of the Northrail.
“Social relocation is important. Human dignity is paramount,” so spake Mabalacat Mayor Boking Morales in laying the standard for the 5,000 houses being constructed at Northville 6 in Barangay Atlu Bola. Sternly warning the developer, Golden Ville, that he would personally stop construction work if he received any complaints from the residents.
Boking has enjoined the beneficiaries to “call the shots” in the construction of their homes as “it is they who would live there.”
The close monitoring of the work of the developer, Golden Ville, is apparently paying off, given the absence of any report of anomalies, or complaints of sub-standard materials or work done in the houses.
Boking has likewise called a meeting among officials of Golden Ville, the Department of Education, National Housing Authority (NHA), Pelco 2, Northville 6 residents, and members of the Alliance of Concerned Northrail Affected Families to “take a common ground for the development of Northville 6.”
Mabalacat Schools District Superintendent Mary Magday gave the assurance that 10 teachers will be sent to Northville 6 conduct classes.
Boking also drew assurances from Pelco 2 for the speedy installation of power to the village and from Golden Ville for its potable water supply.
Northville 6 will take in 5,000 families affected by the railway project in six barangays that lie along the old Philippine National Railway line: Lakandula, Dau, Camachiles, Mabiga, San Francisco, and Poblacion.
Proudly, Boking says “the municipal government is hands-on” in the relocation of informal settlers to Northville 6, thereby pre-empting and preventing any problem between the residents, the NHA, and the developer.
Yes, Boking swears, “there is a harmonious relationship” between would-be residents of Northville 6 and the NHA.
DEPLORABLE LIKE the Mount Pinatubo resettlement scams. Maybe, even as despicable.
So Angeles City Councilor Jay Sangil damned Northville 15 Village in Barangay Cutud where some 3,000 families living “along the riles” of the old PNR will be resettled. This to facilitate the construction of the much-delayed Caloocan-to-Clark phase of the Northrail project.
Sangil went to the site and properly documented the decrepit state of Northville 15.
To repeat here what we have already written sometime back: Tin roofs so thin as to be dented by a cat’s paw and leak in a drizzle. Beams patterned after Pisa’s tower – leaning in all directions. Walls crocheted with cracks, in various stages of collapse. Unreinforced floors upon uncompacted soil made uneven by cracks. Drainage systems that act as catch basin for rain water. Flooded roads.
To repeat, Sangil’s observation: “It’s as if the families were rushed to be evacuated in an area ill-prepared, just like in the days of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption where more people died from ailments at evacuation centers than from the direct effects of the eruption.”
Sangil’s findings were affirmed in a recent inspection of the site by 1st District Rep. Tarzan Lazatin, Angeles City Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting and Councilor Marang Morales.
In the face of these findings, one Warlito Agres, purported head of the NHA office at Northville 15 was heard on local television dismissing the deplorable state of the relocation site as “puro kuwento wala namang kuwenta.”
Maybe, Agres has lived in a pigsty of his own creation all his life that he had no idea how a human habitat should look like.
Too bad they don’t have a hands-on local exec like Boking Morales in the City of Angeles. Else, a different tale for Northville 15 would have emerged.
“Social relocation is important. Human dignity is paramount,” so spake Mabalacat Mayor Boking Morales in laying the standard for the 5,000 houses being constructed at Northville 6 in Barangay Atlu Bola. Sternly warning the developer, Golden Ville, that he would personally stop construction work if he received any complaints from the residents.
Boking has enjoined the beneficiaries to “call the shots” in the construction of their homes as “it is they who would live there.”
The close monitoring of the work of the developer, Golden Ville, is apparently paying off, given the absence of any report of anomalies, or complaints of sub-standard materials or work done in the houses.
Boking has likewise called a meeting among officials of Golden Ville, the Department of Education, National Housing Authority (NHA), Pelco 2, Northville 6 residents, and members of the Alliance of Concerned Northrail Affected Families to “take a common ground for the development of Northville 6.”
Mabalacat Schools District Superintendent Mary Magday gave the assurance that 10 teachers will be sent to Northville 6 conduct classes.
Boking also drew assurances from Pelco 2 for the speedy installation of power to the village and from Golden Ville for its potable water supply.
Northville 6 will take in 5,000 families affected by the railway project in six barangays that lie along the old Philippine National Railway line: Lakandula, Dau, Camachiles, Mabiga, San Francisco, and Poblacion.
Proudly, Boking says “the municipal government is hands-on” in the relocation of informal settlers to Northville 6, thereby pre-empting and preventing any problem between the residents, the NHA, and the developer.
Yes, Boking swears, “there is a harmonious relationship” between would-be residents of Northville 6 and the NHA.
DEPLORABLE LIKE the Mount Pinatubo resettlement scams. Maybe, even as despicable.
So Angeles City Councilor Jay Sangil damned Northville 15 Village in Barangay Cutud where some 3,000 families living “along the riles” of the old PNR will be resettled. This to facilitate the construction of the much-delayed Caloocan-to-Clark phase of the Northrail project.
Sangil went to the site and properly documented the decrepit state of Northville 15.
To repeat here what we have already written sometime back: Tin roofs so thin as to be dented by a cat’s paw and leak in a drizzle. Beams patterned after Pisa’s tower – leaning in all directions. Walls crocheted with cracks, in various stages of collapse. Unreinforced floors upon uncompacted soil made uneven by cracks. Drainage systems that act as catch basin for rain water. Flooded roads.
To repeat, Sangil’s observation: “It’s as if the families were rushed to be evacuated in an area ill-prepared, just like in the days of the Mt. Pinatubo eruption where more people died from ailments at evacuation centers than from the direct effects of the eruption.”
Sangil’s findings were affirmed in a recent inspection of the site by 1st District Rep. Tarzan Lazatin, Angeles City Vice Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting and Councilor Marang Morales.
In the face of these findings, one Warlito Agres, purported head of the NHA office at Northville 15 was heard on local television dismissing the deplorable state of the relocation site as “puro kuwento wala namang kuwenta.”
Maybe, Agres has lived in a pigsty of his own creation all his life that he had no idea how a human habitat should look like.
Too bad they don’t have a hands-on local exec like Boking Morales in the City of Angeles. Else, a different tale for Northville 15 would have emerged.
