Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River 17

When disaster strikes the Kingdom by the River and parliament subsequently places the kingdom under a state of calamity, King Tura will be hostage to parliament. He is at the latter’s mercy because his disaster management program has been disapproved by it.

Under the Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act or RA 10121, local government units or LGUs are mandated to set aside five percent of their general fund for disaster risk reduction and management. It is mandated and all that an LGU does is design a program to justify the disbursement of the fund.

With that, the Kingdom by the River has 69-million disaster fund. Thirty percent of that, commands the DRRM Act, is for immediate response and 70 percent for long term relief and rehabilitation.

When any part of the Kingdom, say, the town of the First Class Tickets, declares a state of calamity, the DRRM mandates that King Tura may disburse aid to supplement that of the town automatically. And “automatically” means automatically, that is, he does not have to beg to parliament for authority to disburse part of the disaster fund.

Repeat, King Tura has the power under the DRRM to automatically disburse funds after parliament declares a state of calamity.

In another instance mentioned above, he can also automatically release aid to any LGU that places itself under a state of calamity.

However, saboteurs inside his regime conspired with smart alecks in parliament in tying up his hands so he cannot rush to the succor of places and subjects of the kingdom during emergencies. This must still be parcel of the “Grand Plan” hatched by Hydrocephallus and his Jijimon media to take over key positions in the kingdom preparatory to the entry of Bogart. This is based on the scenario that King Tura is very ill and may not finish his term.

The DRRM Act gives King Tura the power to immediately act when parliament declares a state of calamity or when any part thereof declares itself in the same condition by their respective local lesilatures.

However, parliament, in complete defiance of DRRM Act prevents King Tura to act immediately. It requires him first to ask for authority from parliament before he releases funds.

During the reign of King Bungs, parliament placed the Kingdom under a state of calamity when Typhoon Prank swept the kingdoms by the River and the Mall with flash floods. Parliament declared a state of calamity. That gave King Bungs as chief of the Kingdom Disaster Council free hand to release funds to procure food and medicines.

Today, should another Prank visit the kingdom, King Tura must first convene parliament to declare a state of calamity. Since parliament rejected his disaster management program, he has to submit again another program for approval by parliament so he can apply the funds on it. Marikot gid. Meanwhile, his constituents in need of immediate aid must bear with the delay due to the bureaucratic stumbling block created by saboteurs.

And who are they? King Tura has to unlock this puzzle: he signed the ordinance that rejected his disaster management program; he approved a measure not knowing that it contained a provision spelling his own doom.

The document neither passed the scrutiny of Jer B who heads the disaster management secretariat who mastered the DRRM Act, nor of Papa Dionisio, the Kingdom Attorney. It was initialled by somebody else and surreptitiously slipped on his desk for his signature.

For one, King Tura must interview Hydrocephallus and his gang for the ordinance that disembowelled the disaster management program he submitted to parliament.