TACLOBAN CITY—The Philippine Army based here in the region said the rebel New People’s Army is utilizing the upcoming local and national elections this May for their recovery efforts and expansion works in the communities.
Capt. Gene Orense, spokesperson of the Army’s 8th Infantry Division said the scheme was contained in a document recovered by troops of the 87th Infantry Battalion headed by Capt. Taguinay Agoy in Barangay Rizal, Basey town in Samar.
“The NPA in the region will capitalize the election period in visiting the communities and at the same time pursue their so-called recovery and expansion efforts in the communities, as revealed in the recovered document,” Orense, in a emailed statement, said.
“The election will also be their means of gaining resources through the permit-to-campaign (PTC) and permit- to- win fees (PTW) generally to support their terroristic activities against government troops and also finance the campaign of the legal left organization,” Orense added.
Also included in the document is their main objective in joining the forthcoming elections which is to pursue and advance their electoral struggle by infiltrating the government bureaucracy particularly the legislative branch and access the government resources (priority development assistance fund or the pork barrel) to support the insurgency movement.
Orense said the newly-recovered documents confirms the plans of the rebels the implementation of PTC/PTW fees to local candidates ranging from P50,000 to P 5 million.
He added previous military operations conducted by the troops of 63IB in Barangay Capoto-an, Las Navas town, Northern Samar on October 8, 2012 have recovered several documents containing information of PTC and PTW fee schemes purportedly to be implemented by the NPA this elections.
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