THE New People’s Army (NPA) in Albay has tagged the claim of Party-list Rep. Alfredo Garbin of Ako Bicol that he was being harassed by guerrillas “as a big fat lie.”
In a statement, Florante Orobia, spokesman for the NPA-Santos Binamera Command (SBC) in Albay, said Garbin may have been hallucinating when he insisted that NPA guerrillas shadowed him on May 2 in Legaspi City.
“We vehemently deny Garbin’s charge since we do not monitor civilians and we did not have any NPA unit in Legaspi City at that time. Garbin insisted that the two men who parked a motorcycle without any license plate in front of his house of May 2 were armed and were NPA elements. We believe that Garbin is talking through his head,” Orobia explained.
Orobia said “there was no NPA unit in Legaspi City at that time. Moreover, NPA rules bar any unit from harassing any civilian. The NPA has nothing to do with this alleged harassment of Representative Garbin.”
Nonetheless, Orobia said what bothers the revolutionary movement is the quick and cocksure assertion of Garbin that the NPA was behind the so-called harassment. “He [Garbin] could not even determine who really harassed him, whether these men were armed or not, so it was practically impossible for him to say with certainty that the NPA was involved,” Orobia added.
“SBC clarifies this matter with Garbin. The NPA only focuses on military targets. Any citizen is free to make contact with the NPA to ask questions, discuss and clarify matters. Anyone should not fear the NPA and revolutionary justice if he has not committed any crime against the people and the revolutionary movement,” he said.
“It appears to be a big campaign gimmick of Ako Bikol owing to its low rating. This party-list group has been exposed to be the creation of a big-time contractor and other millionaires. Ako Bikol has also been exposed as working in cahoots with the Armed Forcesin slandering the NPA,” Orobia also said.
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