Published January 20, 2021, 11:37 AM
The hashtag DefendPUP trended on social media Tuesday night after Duterte Youth Partylist Rep. Ducielle Cardema proposed the termination of the accord between the Department of National Defense (DND) and Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) signed in 1990.
Following the termination of the University of the Philippines (UP)-DND accord, Cardema called on DND to likewise cancel a similar agreement with PUP.
The 1990 PUP-DND Accord signed by then Defense secretary Fidel V. Ramos and PUP President Nemesio Prudente safeguards PUP against police and military intervention and operations inside the University’s branches and campuses.
In a statement, the lawmaker claimed that leftist groups have abused the UP-DND and PUP-DND accord.
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By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News
Published January 20, 2021 6:38pm The termination of a decades-old pact barring military and police forces from freely entering the University of the Philippines (UP) was an “assault” on the state university’s academic freedom and institutional autonomy, two student parties said Wednesday. Alumni and members of SAMASA and Nagkaisang Tugon, whose activism in the ‘80s and ‘90s led to the creation of the 1989 accord between UP and the Department of National Defense (DND), said the termination of the pact was a “barefaced betrayal.” On Monday, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana informed UP President Danilo Concepcion that the DND had decided to end the accord, citing claims that communists were recruiting students inside UP campuses.
DELA ROSA: ALLOW STATE FORCES TO ALSO RECRUIT U.P. STUDENTS, DNP-U.P ACCORD TERMINATION LONG OVERDUE
Senator Ronald Bato Dela Rosa said the abrogation of the decades-long agreement between the government and the University of the Philippines (UP) barring state forces from entering the campuses sans coordination with the university officials is long overdue considering the deceit and undesirable activities of the leftist groups within the university throughout its implementation.
Dela Rosa issued the statement following the unilateral termination of the Department of National Defense (DND) on Tuesday, January 18, of its 1989 accord with U on the access of the military and police in the state university s campuses.
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