Conflicted and geographically isolated barangays that have been cleared of insurgents under the government’s anti-insurgency campaign need to be rehabilitated and rebuilt into developed rural communities to sustain government efforts to cut them off from communist influence, Senate President Vicente Sotto III said on Friday.
Senator Pangilinan on Thursday added his voice to the growing clamor to rechannel the P19-billion anti-insurgency fund to assist those devastated by Typhoons “Quinta” and “Rolly.”
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday expressed support for the use of P19 billion of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to fund disaster aid efforts, especially in typhoon-stricken provinces in Bicol and Southern Tagalog regions.
Malacañang supports the proposal to realign a portion of the government’s anti-insurgency fund to help areas devastated by typhoon “Rolly.”
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday said Lt. General Antonio Parlade Jr., Southern Luzon Command (SolCom) chief, was merely warning celebrities on the risk of joining front-groups or organizations of communist terrorists.
With millions in housing backlog, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Wednesday criticized the government’s allocation of a “measly P4 billion” for the housing sector while it poured in a total of P9.6 billion into confidential and intelligence funds in the proposed 2021 budget.
Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlos Zarate on Friday said Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy’s challenge to the Makabayan bloc to denounce the communist leadership was just a desperate ploy to divert from the issue of the “humongous generals’ pork” in the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon believes the P16.4-billion budget for the government’s campaign to end communism will be spent on administration allies’ 2022 electoral bids.
Malacañang is leaving it to the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to decide whether to extend the unilateral ceasefire with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-the New People’s Army (NPA)-the National Democratic Front.
President Rodrigo Duterte is scheduled to convene key officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Monday to boost the military’s counter-insurgency efforts.
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