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Filipino farmer groups have called on the Duterte administration to stop targeting their ranks as they are being rounded up and forced to “surrender” as alleged members of the New People’s Army.
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. did not mince his words in criticizing Vice President Leni Robredo and some "senior senators" over their proposal to realign the multi-billion peso budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) for the social amel
Press Release Q: on NTF-ELCAC SFMD: Last year they said there are 822 barangays that were cleared of insurgency and next year there will be a total of 2,220, so if you deduct the 822, which were previously funded, you will get a balance of 1,398 cleared barangays. At P20 million each, my estimate is there is roughly P28 billion that they will be asking for. That is why I estimated last June that given these statements by the DILG about the cleared barangays, I estimated that they will ask for P28 billion in 2022. That should be the figure and that is why I am a little surprised that I heard f...
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. (REY BANIQUET/Presidential Photo / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) On top of Esperon’s priority list are the strengthening of the country’s position in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) and ending the menace of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). According to Esperon, the country’s maritime dispute with China and other claimant countries in the WPS “is a problem that can be solved not in our lifetime.” “Might as well strengthen our positions, not to the point of going to war but through the West Philip...
Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya (DILG photo) Bayan Muna Rep Eufemia Cullamat earlier branded DILG Secretary Eduardo Año as “thick-skinned’’ for proposing an additional P40 billion in the 2022 budget for the BDP where 2,000 barangays that have been cleared of New People’s Army (NPA) influence will be allocated with funds for the establishment of various development projects like farm-to-market roads, schools, houses, health centers, electrification, water, and livelihood projects among others. DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya turned the tables at the Makabayan Bloc, calling it “sh...