Displaced Marawi residents whose residential or commercial buildings were destroyed during the five-month siege in 2017 will receive, according to a proposed law, a minimum of 176,000 pesos to a maximum of 1.76 million pesos in compensation, not the fair market value as earlier proposed, because the government’s economic managers did not agree.
House Bill 7503 or the proposed “Marawi Siege Compensation Act,” a substitute bill to the three bills earlier filed, institutionalizes the Task Force Bangon Marawi (TFBM) and mandates it to “provide monetary compensation for the loss or destruction of residential and commercial properties as a result of the Marawi Siege.
According to Lanao del Norte Rep. Khalid Dimaporo, principal author of the substitute bill, the proposed measure provides that the compensation shall be patterned after RA 10368, or the Human Rights Victims’ Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013, where the amounts “provided that the monetary award for claimants under this act shall be equivalent and shall not exceed the monetary amount granted to the Human Rights Victims recognized by RA 10368.
Compensation granted to Marcos’ human rights victims was based on point allocation, ranging from 176,000 pesos for one point equivalent to 1.76 million pesos for 10 points for those killed or disappeared and still missing.
Whatever the 10 points will represent for Marawi victims, their compensation can go no more than 1.76 million pesos.
The bill proposes the creation of a Compensation Subcommittee under the TFBM to “process claims in line with the spirit of Republic Act 10368.”
As proposed, the five-member Compensation Subcommittee, a body “attached yet independent” from TFBM, will be chaired by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and co-chaired by the Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission (BHRC). Its members shall be “organic to the CHR and BHRC.”
The bill proposes under Section 9 that “lawful owners or possessors who have become internally displaced persons (IDPs) as a result of the destruction of their property as a result of the Marawi Siege may file a claim with the Compensation Subcommittee for monetary compensation.”
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Source: MindaNews
(Carolyn O. Arguillas)
