Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva lamented the passive and sluggish response of the Department of Agriculture to the massive Feb. 28 oil spill off Oriental Mindoro, which had cost nearly a billion in livelihood sources. | BPinlacINQ
Villanueva compared the DA, concurrently led by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., with other government bodies like the Department of Social Welfare and Development, and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority who had been “proactive” in addressing the oil spill.
The legislator cited the lack of water and air quality testing equipment, which, he said, was even sourced through private entities. Long-term solutions like a recovery roadmap for the livelihood of affected communities should likewise be pursued, he added.Villanueva renewed the push for the creation of a Department of Disaster Resilience, countering criticisms claiming that the establishment of such would be redundant and against the Marcos administration’s aim of rightsizing the government.
Villanueva noted that establishing a separate government body for disaster management is not redundant but rather needed.
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