Rep. Emilio Bernardino Yulo (Neg. Occ., 5th District)*
Rep. Emilio Yulo III (Neg. Occ., 5th District) said government should come up with a clear plan for the internally displaced persons who have had to abandon their homes within the 6-kilometers expanded danger of Mt. Kanlaon to live in evacuation camps for nearly seven months.
Yulo said he is not surprised that 33 families with 89 members escaped from their evacuation camp to return to their homes within the 6-kilometer expanded danger zone of Barangay Cabagnaan, La Castellana, on Monday, June 30.
“They are physically tired, mentally disturbed, psychologically distressed and sexually deprived,” Yulo said, and there is no clear government plan on what will happen to them in the next months and years.
If the crisis last for several years are we going to say they should abandon their livelihood? Yulo asked.
Yulo said he does not think the evacuees will ever live in a tent city and abandon their means of livelihood because they are concerned about the future of their families
Yulo said he will deliver a privilege speech, when Congress opens, on the plight of the Kanloan IDPs to bring national attention to their plight.
He noted that because of sulfur and ash emitted by Kanlaon roofs of many classrooms in La Castellana are also leaking.
Yulo said a permanent relocation site for the evacuees would be a total solution.*