By Billy Begas
House Deputy Minority leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate on Friday challenged members of the Cabinet to live on a P1,000 budget for two weeks.
“Subukan kaya nilang mabuhay ng isang libo lang ang hawak sa dalawang linggo o kaya ay apat na libo lang para sa buo nilang pamilya ng dalawang linggo para maranasan nila ang hirap ng ating mga kababayan lalo na ang mga no work, no pay,” Zarate said.
Zarate also lambasted the government for failing to give the measly cash aid before the re-imposition of Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in National Capital Region, which started today, Friday.
The government promised to give P1,000 aid per individual or up to P4,000 per family in areas placed under ECQ.
“Sabi nila may budget na pero bakit wala pa din? Wala ba talaga silang pagkilala sa hirap na dinadanas ng mga kababayan natin tuwing ECQ?” Zarate asked.
During the previous implementation of ECQ in March and April, Zarate said aid did not come to many families even after the last day of the lockdown.
He said it seems that Malacañang has no sense of urgency. ‘Natutulog na naman sa pansitan ang mga nasa palasyo.”
Zarate also put on notice the administration not to subject the distribution of cash aid to another money-making scheme that reportedly attended the previous distribution of the billions-worth social amelioration program (SAP), which was awarded to a dubious company Starpay, as exposed recently by Sen. Manny Pacquiao.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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