Squatters to finally give way to seafood processing plant
FIFTY three informal settler households will be relocated to give way to the construction of the Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc beginning June this year.
City Engineer Virginia Rosario, chair of the city’s Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement, said some of the families will be moved to the Gawad Kalinga Bangusville Housing Project in Bonuan Gueset while others to a private lot being provided by the family of Rudy Ramos.
Rosario said she hopes that by May 15 all the in formal settlers at the site, just beside the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center, shall have been moved out.
She admitted that there is still resistance from few squatters but she said this is understandable and her group is optimistic that these can be ironed out in time.
Funding for the processing plant amounting to $2.2 million comes in the form of a grant from the Korean government through the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr., Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap and the KOICA representative in Manila recently signed the memorandum of agreement for the project.
The project was launched during the incumbency of then mayor Benjamin Lim.
Fernandez earlier said the processing plant will be a state-of-the art facility, with components for cold storage and refrigeration.
Once completed, it will be open for private fish processors so that they can improve their products in accordance with international standards set by the foreign market.–LM
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