LA TRINIDAD, BENGUET – Around 3,000 Benguet residents from various towns were each given P3,000-worth of relief goods on Tuesday from Cielito “Honeylet” Avanceña, the common-law wife of President Duterte.
Avanceña met families who suffered the devastation wrought by Typhoon “Ompong” at the Benguet Sports Complex.
The facility was packed with about 3,000 people, some of them farmers who were told they would be receiving seed capital.
The media were kept away from the program.
Ompong blew through the province on Sept. 15 with strong rains and wind, destroying P172 million worth of high-value crops and P2-million worth of heirloom rice, eroding P2-million worth of farms, and damaging P5-million worth of greenhouses and irrigation facilities.
The typhoon also killed 87 Benguet residents, 82 of them killed by landslides in Itogon town. Karlston Lapniten/lb