FARHANA Haji Hassan fled Marawi City in 2017 when the ISIS-linked Maute Group wreaked havoc for five months and intense gunfights broke out between government forces and terrorists.
To rebuild her family and her life, she turned to the Marawi Compensation Board, a body formed under a 2022 law to pay Marawi residents who lost their properties. She moved to Quezon City and used that money to open a stall at Commonwealth Market.
Out of 14,495 Marawi residents who filed for compensation claims, only 1,168 claims have been approved, according to the board. The deadline for filing was July 3. The process of approving claims and disbursing money has been a slog, but Dandamun-Latiph, in an interview with Al Jazeera in August, asserted that the board needed to review the merits of each application or else “this office will fail.”THE Department of Budget and Management has allocated P1.154 billion for the Marawi Compensation Board this 2025, which is still up for approval in the Senate.
In response to Pangandaman, Majority Leader Francis Tolentino said amendments to the Right-of-Way Act are now under way to make it easier for affected residents to get their claims.
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