In the Secondary National Roads Development Project in Samar

MCA-P CEO: Payment of affected properties reaches P5M

By PIA Samar / NBQ
August 14, 2012

CATBALOGAN CITY  –  Payment of project affected entities (PAEs) as what the Millennium Challenge Account- Philippines (MCA-P) Chairman and Executive Officer (CEO) Marivic Añonuevo bared has reached P5 million.

PAEs are those structures, properties and improvements affected by the road project in Samar.

During the 20th Samar Island Partnership for Peace and Development (SIPPAD) Assembly in Catbalogan City, Monday, Añonuevo gave the remarks:

“On resettlement, we started the payment of compensation to PAEs in San Julian to Balangkayan since June and we hope to finish it next month. So far, we have paid P5 million to about 145 PAEs out of 3,692 identified PAEs. The balance is in the process of validation and payment.”

The MCA-P Chairman and Executive Officer also lauded the LGUs for the smooth negotiations.

“We are happy to note the support and cooperation being extended by the LGUs and by the people themselves, towards a smooth resolution of the resettlement issues,” the lady told the SIPPAD participants from the three Samar provinces.

“In the true spirit of bayanihan, barangay folks help one another in moving houses affected by the project,” Añonuevo noted.

Añonuevo also talked of KALAHI-CIDSS KKB Projects, a community driven development project implemented by MCA-P with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) that has implemented more than one thousand sub-projects through the Makamasang Tugon.

She added that most of those address basic social services like school buildings, health stations and day care centers, concrete pathwalks and farm-to-market roads.