Typhoon Odette has left Boholanos with great economic losses.
The damages brought by Odette like houses, establishments, agricultural products, and most of all, the lives of people are not new to us. And we have a lot to learn from it.
This natural disaster is much horrible than the COVID-19 pandemic, that it has really shaken the very inner being of our brothers and sisters.
Almost three months have passed but Bohol is not yet fully recovered. We are still in the first level of recovering. And that is as devastating as the typhoon.
Many of us have asked and still asking: where are they (our political leaders)?
Public trust is already ruined when pandemic harshly hit us, and the incompetence of some if not most of our elected officials, adds our burdens.
What is worst is the “father of Bohol” admitted himself that he cannot help Boholanos restore their shelters.
Our people are criticizing his weak leadership but seems unfazed while continuing his political endeavors for the 2022 elections.
It is our constitutional right to complain against a disable government but we cannot move forward if we remain on barking our disappointments to the said administration without doing something.
What we should do is to rebuild what we have lost, rebuild within our capacities. Let us recover by recovering ourselves first. And let us decide for our better tomorrows starting this May 9. (Wilson Auguis Subrio)
