Sen. Ferdinand “Bong Bong” Marcos has urged the national government to speed up the rehabilitation of Yolanda-ravaged areas in Eastern Visayas to recover economic losses.

Marcos, who personally checked the allegedly substandard and overpriced bunkhouses in Tacloban City and Palo, Leyte on Thursday, noted that the supply of electricity has not been restored in some relocation sites in Tacloban, contrary to the reported “95 percent restored electricity.”

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