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VP Leni Robredo Offered A Position At Duterte’s Kitchen

December 5, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Less than 24 hours after Vice President Leni Robredo resigned from her Cabinet post as Housing Czar, she was offered a position at the newly-opened Duterte’s Kitchen.

Duterte’s Kitchen is a feeding program launched by the Duterte-aligned political party PDP-Laban to feed the poor — adults and children alike– as well to teach them how to read.

Currently, the kitchen is feeding between 5o to 70 children daily during breakfast, lunch and dinner. Lugaw is usually served for breakfast.

(During the campaign, Robredo said that her campaign funds came from various fundraising events held on her behalf, including lugawan, or stores that sell lugaw or rice porridge).

Noting Robredo’s expertise in cooking lugaw, PDP-Laban said that now that her time has been freed up from Cabinet duties, she can be a big asset to the feeding program.

The vice president has not officially responded to the offer as of press time.

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Yolanda Victims Want Buried Relief Goods Exhumed And Transferred To Dinky Soliman’s Frontyard

December 2, 2016 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Soliman, left, and rotting Yoland relief goods buried in Leyte, right

PALO, Leyte , Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – It was during the tenure of Dinky Soliman as secretary of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) under the Aquino administration that super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) hit the Philippines, causing massive devastation and loss of many lives.

Relief for those who survived the tragedy was slow to come. Worse, food items intended for victims left homeless and hungry were left to rot and later buried underground.

That was in 2013.

Fast forward to 2016.

The former DSWD was seen joining a protest rally of those against the burial of the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos in Libingan Ng Mga Bayani. They are demanding that the buried remains be exhumed (“Hukayin”), claiming Marcos didn’t deserve to be interred in LNMB.

Well, what comes around goes around.

Today, thousands of Yolanda victims have called on the government of President Duterte to exhume the buried relief goods in Leyte and transferred to the frontyard of Soliman. The group promised to hold a daily vigil at the EDSA Shrine until their demand is met.

The Adobo Chronicles tried to reach Soliman for comment, but her cell phone has been disconnected.