Marlen V. Ronquillo

BANGON Marawi, which is the proposed master plan to bring back Marawi to its feet from its current wreck and ruin, has good intentions. But the scope and reach, if we go by the newspaper accounts, will just have the effect of physically rehabilitating this proud and historic Muslim city. It is a spending and infrastructure program, pure and simple, the kind of work governments do to a place visited and ravaged by a natural calamity.

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