With United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pledging on Saturday to rally global backing to help areas hard hit by Super Typhoon Yolanda recover faster, the Aquino administration must do its part to get things done, properly.

While the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has outlined the parameters for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Yolanda-hit areas, the ugly dialogue between Mayor Alfred Romualdez of Tacloban City and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas 2nd six days after Yolanda struck shows that politics can rear its ugly head even during times of humanitarian crisis. What ever happened to the spirit of bayanihan?

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