Sulu Governor Abdusakur Tan is seeking after help for the flood victims making his appeal to the ‘national government’ after Mayor Hussin Amin declare the capital town under a “state of calamity” within the municipality area due to the flashflood since last Thursday.
1st District of Sulu Represtative Habib Tupay Loong arrived Monday morning from Manila to see the flood condition personally for the entire victim estimated 4,560 individuals and around 1,140 households.
Loong inform personally about the calamity in the town and appealed for immediate (–foul word(s) removed–)istance to President Aquino for the people of this town.
Representative Loong have made several appeals to different government sector for help of the flood victims to the House Speaker Sonny Belmonte, Secretary Corazon Soliman, Department of Social Services and Development (DSWD) and to the Department of national Defense )DND).
However, according to Sulu Governor Tan in his report, that in some villages where earlier floodwaters reached about 5 feet high that left 5 people dead and sweeping away houses is now started to subside.
The flood in general is diminishing now, but in some areas in Jolo floodwater is still about knee-deep in the village of Asturias, said Tan.
“This is the worst flashflood ever that hits the town since many years” the flashflood brought the damage about P100-million, said Amin.
Several of trading center were swept away by the floodwaters making some goods being sold at barter, and some portion of the wharf was destroyed on Friday, he said.
Tan and Amin were working together hand-in-hand in helping flood victims distributing relief goods to displaced residents who were evacuated in different safe areas.
In an interview Tan said, “we are doing our best to ensure the safety of the flood victims taking care of them especially children, we have been working 24 hours.
We are hoping from the national government to extend the necessary (–foul word(s) removed–)istance for the ongoing recovery and to restore the damaged infrastructures by the flood, Amin said.
The DSWD Region 9 office from Zaboanga City was also giving relief goods by a boat of the Philippine Navy.
The Philippine Marines were mobilizing rubber boats since Thursday and the American Troops of the Special Operations Task Force (–foul word(s) removed–)iting the DSWD personnel in providing meals and drinking water to the victims.
