MARAWI CITY –The lone woman among 10 presidential candidates arrived at the rally site – the Open Court in the Area 6 transitory shelters for displaced residents in Barangay Sagonsongan – shortly before 11 a.m. on Friday, April 1, clad in a pink long-sleeved blouse, her pink hijab and pink face mask allowing the audience to see only her eyes, eyebrows and forehead.
Lanao del Sur is the third area in the five-province, three-city Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao that Robredo visited. Her first stop in her BARMM sortie early morning of March 16 was the Grand Mosque in Cotabato City. By evening she was in Basilan and 16 days later, in Lanao del Sur. In 2016, Robredo won in four of the five provinces then under the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao – Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Basilan and Tawi-tawi — but lost to Marcos Jr. in Sulu.
“Kailangan ko na pong tapusin dahil mag-11:15 na, mag prayer time na po tayo. Pero eto lang po sandali. Bago lang po ako magtapos, bukas mag-uumpisa na ang taunang paggunita natin ng Holy Month of Ramadan.
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“Umasa ka at ang ating bise president, sa darating na halalan, sigurado landslide ang ibibigay ng Lanao del Sur” [Be assured, you and our Vice President, in the coming elections, Lanao del Sur will surely give you a landslide ]. “Requirement po kasi kahapon. Ito po talaga ang kulay namin” , a local government employee wearing a pink shirt, told MindaNews.
In Filipino, she told them many candidates will come here to woo them, “they will tell you ‘I love Marawi and Lanao del Sur,’ they will promise to take care of you but the question that should be asked of them is, before the election, where were you? When you suffered especially during the Marawi siege, where were they?”
Her office, she added, has provided about 100 million pesos worth of projects to assist in the recovery post-siege. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, her office downloaded 17 million pesos to the Amai Pakpak Medical Center so that Lanao residents who need help can receive help immediately.
Robredo narrated that while the siege was ongoing, her office did not just bring food to the evacuation centers but also livelihood and set up community learning hubs, among others. ‘Ground Zero,’ the former main battle area between government forces and the ISIS-inspired Maute Group is still a ‘ghost town’ five years after the Marawi Siege. Residents and storeowners await the signing into law of the Marawi Compensation bill passed by both houses of Congress so they can rebuild their homes and shops.
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