CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -– City Mayor Vicente Emano on Tuesday urged the national government to authorize local government officials to initiate a localized peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front=New Peoples Army (CPP-NDF-NPA) rebels.
Emano issued the proposal in reaction to the ambush of Gingoog City Mayor Ruthie Guingona and her convoy in the outskirts of
Guingona survived the ambush but her driver and a close-in security were killed.
“Ruthie is not a threat to anyone. I am personally saddened by the events,” Emano said.
Emano also narrated the attacks waged by the NPAs in the municipal towns of Misamis Oriental. He said the NPAs attacked the towns of
“These NPA attacks mean that ‘insurgency’ is now the main concern of the government,” Emano added.
He said that these incidents would not have taken place if the local government units initiated localized peace talks with the NPAs.
Emano said the local peace talks with NPA rebels is an ideal approach since the local government units will have the initiative to convey a peace deal with rebel leaders in their areas of concern.
The Cagayan de Oro executive made the proposal in response to the “inaction” of the provincial government leadership toward the various attacks waged by the NPA rebels in Misamis Oriental.
Emano, then provincial governor of Misamis Oriental, was the first government official authorized by former President Corazon Aquino to forge a local peace talk with NPA rebels in Misamis Oriental in 1986.
The successful peace talk was hosted by the municipal town of Tagolo-an with Emano representing the province of Misamis Oriental and Alfredo Mapano a.k.a. “Paris,” Secretary of the Northern Mindanao Revolutionary Party Committee.
The successful peace talk ended NPA assault and ambuscades in Misamis Oriental until the NPA attacks resumed lately, almost three decades after.
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