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May 4, 2021 Drilon questions 'speedy' release of P10.6-B out of P19-B NTF-ELCAC fund amid calls to realign it to COVID-19 response Senate Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon questioned the government's spending priorities amid the pandemic and criticized why the country's controversial anti-insurgency program is given priority in the release of the budget amid tight government resources. Citing the data from the Department of Budget and Management, Drilon said the total fund releases for the National Task Force to End Local Communism and Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has already reached P10.68 bi...

Published May 4, 2021, 2:10 PM Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Tuesday, May 4 questioned the “speedy” release of P10.6-billion out of the P19-billion controversial budget of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). The move comes after majority of the lawmakers called for the realignment of the NTF-ELCAC’s fund to augment the government’s coronavirus (COVID-19) response following criticisms against its red-tagging activities. The government’s anti-insurgency task force has a total appropriation of P19-billion under the 2021 national budget...

Leyte Representative Lucy Torres-Gomez on Monday appealed to lawmakers to reconsider proposals to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) warning such moves would reduce the government’s gains in the fight against local insurgency. Torres-Gomez proposed tha

LAKE SEBU, South Cotabato, May 1 (PIA) -- Under the guidance of the National Commission on

Published May 1, 2021, 3:18 PM National Security Adviser (NSA) Hermogenes Esperon Jr. challenged senators and congressmen on Saturday, May 1, to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) if they want the national government’s anti-insurgency efforts to go to waste. Esperon, vice chairperson of the NTF-ELCAC, emphasized that nothing good will come out from the calls of several lawmakers to take back the task force’s budget for the Barangay Development Program (BDP), its pet project. “Itong problema ng CPP-NPA [Communist Party of the Philippines – ...