Robredo: End of UP-DND deal ‘designed to silence criticism’
Jan 19, 2021 10:27 AM PHT
Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, January 19, questioned the Duterte’s government decision to end its deal with the University of the Philippines (UP) that has kept state forces from freely entering its campuses over the last 3 decades.
The Philippine opposition leader, a UP graduate, said in a statement that the government s unilateral termination of the 1989 accord supposedly to stop in-campus communist recruitment, is designed to muzzle dissent. If this was simply about law enforcement, all the Accord asks is that military authorities give notice to University officials before any operations in UP. This is neither a difficult nor onerous rule, and 5 Presidents since 1989 have managed to protect both the UP community and the Republic without breaking it, she said.
The government will face repercussions over the decision of the Department of National Defense (DND) to unilaterally terminate its accord with the University of the Philippines (UP) that prevented state forces from entering its campuses, an official of an organization of lawyers warned on Tuesday.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Tuesday justified his decision to unilaterally terminate the 1989 accord between the Department of National Defense (DND) and the University of the Philippines (UP) which prohibits state forces from entering its campus premises, claiming that it has already beco
Several progressive groups denounced the move by the Department of National Defense (DND) that reportedly terminated a 30-year agreement that prohibits any military and police presence inside the campuses of the University of the Philippines (UP).