The Bangsamoro government and local officials in Lamitan City separately sent approximately 20 tons of relief supplies to Cebu for distribution to tremor-stricken communities across the province.
Radio reports in Cotabato City on Monday, October 6, stated that the Bangsamoro government, along with the Tactical Operation Group 12 (TOG 12) of the Philippine Air Force in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte, facilitated the airlift to Cebu last weekend of 445 bags of plasma from the Cotabato Regional Medical Center, along with modular tents, hygiene and sleeping kits and water containers for villagers displaced by the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the province last September 30.
The office of BARMM’s chief minister, Abdulrauf Macacua, the TOG 12, the Office of Civil Defense-BARMM, the Ministry of Social Services and Development-BARMM and the Bangsamoro Rapid Emergency Action on Disaster Incidence cooperated in transporting the relief supplies to Cebu using an Air Force plane.
Macacua, figurehead of the 80-seat BARMM parliament, said on Monday that he is thankful to the TOG 12 of the Philippine Air Force for the prompt airlift to Cebu of the relief supplies from the agencies of the Bangsamoro regional government.
Residents of Lamitan City and their local government unit also shipped last weekend 10 tons of relief supplies to Cebu for distribution to tremor-stricken residents in the northern part of the province.
More than 60 villagers died from injuries due to the collapse of structures and stampedes caused by the earthquake that jolted the province.
‘We, Lamiteños, stand along with our compatriot-Filipinos and the foreigners who suffered a lot from the earthquake that struck Cebu province. We wish for their recovery from that calamity,’ Lamitan City Mayor Roderick Furigay told reporters on Monday.