welcome to Move & Rappler+
‘What if there’s a shabu lab in UP?’ AFP uses drug war to justify termination of accord
Jan 20, 2021 1:25 PM PHT
What if there’s a shabu lab inside the University of the Philippines (UP)?
This was the hypothetical situation presented by Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Spokesperson Major General Edgard Arevalo in justifying the Duterte government’s abrupt termination of the 1989 accord between the state university and the Department of National Defense which prevented the military and police from freely entering UP campuses.
“
Paano na lamang po kung mayroong shabu laboratory, for instance. sa loob ng University of the Philippines community or campus and meron tayong valid arrest warrant at search warrant?” Arevalo, a lawyer, said in a press briefing on Wednesday, January 20.
Published January 20, 2021, 6:31 PM
Now that the 1989 Enrile-Soto accord was already abrogated, can police forces enter any campus of the University of the Philippines (UP) without notifying the University administration?
General Debold Sinas, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said that they cannot because of the abrogation of the agreement, which states that military forces should seek clearance first from UP authorities before they could enter any campus, technically does not cover the PNP anymore.
PNP Chief Gen. Debold Sinas
(PNP / MANILA BULLETIN)
When the agreement was signed in 1989, police forces were still under the Armed Forces of the Philippines through the Philippine Constabulary-Integrated National Police (PC-INP). The establishment of the PNP in 1991 separated the police force from the military.
UP official decries AFP s ‘show of force’ inside campus
Published January 20, 2021 10:08pm An official of the University of the Philippines-Diliman on Wednesday denounced the entry of troops from the 7th Civil Relations Group of the Civil Relations Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines inside the campus to inspect their urban gardening project. The visit was conducted after the Department of National Defense unilaterally abrogated the agreement with the university banning military and police forces inside the campus if there is no coordination. “For us talaga, it was, para sa kanila ipakita na puwede na sila na pumasok sa campus and they did that and not just in Arboretum, I think, they also went in Village B,” UP Diliman vice chancellor for community affairs Prof. Aleli Bawagan, PhD said in Chino Gaston’s report on “24 Oras.”
(UPDATED) The PUP Office of the Student Regent says student leaders were threatened by Duterte Youth after they submitted their position paper, but the party list denies the allegation
Published January 20, 2021 9:38am
Updated January 20, 2021 11:00am Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque on Wednesday offered help in facilitating the meeting between Department of National Defense and University of the Philippines officials regarding the termination of a decades-long accord on military and police presence on campuses. “I will offer my good office so that the UP president and the Secretary of National Defense can discuss this matter,” Roque said in an interview on CNN Philippines. A UP alumnus and former member of UP faculty, Roque said he supports UP President Danilo Concepcion s move to seek a dialogue with Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana regarding the matter.