KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato –- The city government has decided to defy a ban on the distribution of food aid during the election period in a bid to save drought-affected communities from starving and prevent a repeat of the Kidapawan City melee, an official said.
“We do not want a repeat of the Kidapawan City experience,” said Cyrus Urbano, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council action officer.
Urbano admitted that the local government had not received any go-signal from the Comelec yet but he said it would no longer wait for that before distributing food aid to more than 3,500 farming families suffering from the drought here.
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