Bad communication lines But efforts by officials of the National Disaster. During the Zamboanga crisis, the two secretaries were regularly in contact with the media. The Inquirer also tried to call both Cabinet secretaries on their cell phones but only got prerecorded messages saying the “subscriber cannot be reached.” Before their Visayas trip, both Roxas and Gazmin had been at the forefront of government efforts to restore the peace in Zamboanga following raids by Moro separatist rebels. INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS MANILA, Philippines-They may have dodged bullets for three weeks in Zamboanga City but they didn’t reckon with the power of Supertyphoon “Yolanda.” Sent to the Visayas to supervise relief operations as Yolanda pummeled the area, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas remained incommunicado to relief officials in Manila despite efforts to contact them. Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II and Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin.
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