The Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP) council
assigned the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National
Police (PNP) to monitor the implementation of projects provided by the Office
of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) here.
Complaints of alleged irregularities prompted the body to compose a monitoring team to check on those who just receive financial assistance for micro business but never invested the money for the purpose, and who have diverted the money for purposes other than the approved proposal.
Governor Jocel Baac directed the military and police to plan out their monitoring activities and report to the council their findings. “We have to check whether government money is being spent for the purpose of uplifting the economic status of former rebels,” he said adding that there is no use for them to join the mainstream society if they are not productive through these economic assistances.
Pastor Luis Ao-as, Chairman of the Kalinga and Apayao Religious Sector Association or KARSA reiterated on the “no dole-out policy” saying government funds should not just be released to beneficiaries and leave it to them without proper supervision and monitoring. This is to ensure that special projects like what OPAPP is giving as a reward on peace gains are implemented and has impact on the lives of the beneficiaries.
“Beneficiaries of projects should be consulted first, establish partnership and that projects during their implementation stage should be regularly monitored,” Ao-as stressed.
Meanwhile, Lt. Col. Resurrection Mariano, Commanding Officer of the 17th Infantry Battalion, reported that the primary reasons why insurgency thrives in their area of responsibility are high illiteracy rate, high poverty incidence, and slow delivery of basic services to the hinterlands.
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