Aquino entrusts Binay with ‘Yolanda’ housing projects despite controversies MANILA, Philippines — Just a week before saying that Vice President Jejomar Binay was free to leave his administration, President Benigno Aquino III placed Binay on top of the streamlined bureaucratic process to speed up the building of permanent housing for victims of supertyphoon “Yolanda” (international name: Haiyan). Nearly a year after Yolanda, the government is set to put up a “one-stop shop” to process permits, certifications, clearances and licenses needed for “housing and resettlement projects in Yolanda-affected areas,” according to Administrative Order No. 44, which the President signed last Oct. 28. The order assigned the Binay-led Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC), which heads the government’s Resettlement Cluster, as the lead agency to implement the “streamlined approval process.” Speaking to reporters last Monday, Aquino, apparently reacting to Binay’s recent criticisms directed at the Aquino administration, reminded the Vice President that he was part of the administration and that Binay knew where the door was if he thought the administration was going about it the wrong way. The leader of the nominally oppositionist United Nationalist Alliance, Binay began criticizing administration policies after the Senate began an investigation into charges that he had taken kickbacks while still the mayor of Makati and that he had accumulated assets beyond his income as a salaried official. newsinfo.inquirer.net/648845/aquino-taps-binay-to-build-new-homes-for-yolanda-victims
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:27:24 +0000
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