OFWs who have successfully escaped from Libya declared that the only workers left in Libya are Filipinos. As of Wednesday, only about 3,500 Filipino OFWs out of 30,000 have been evacuated out of Libya.  About 15,000 are still trapped inside Libya. Compare that to China which immediately evacuated 29,000 of its nationals in 5 days. Pakistan, India, Korea, Nigeria and Thailand also quickly evacuated their people.
Why did it take 10 days to hire a ship from Greece to pick up 1,725 Filipinos in Bhengazi? Also, ten days to charter an airplane to pick up OFWs from Bhengazi to ferry them to Crete? It had to take Acting Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario to go himself to Tunisia and to Libya to expedite action. Main reason for the delay is the lack of funds released. DFA claimed it released $150,000 to the Philippine Embassy in Tripoli. It was only a few days ago that OWWA released P125 million for the ship and airplane charters. Another reason could be that for the first 3 weeks of February, Malacañang was preoccupied with the preparations and activities to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Edsa. And then there were a small number of personnel deployed at the Philippine Embassy in Libya
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