Thirty former
rebels in the province continue to benefit from the Provincial Livelihood
Program for Rebel Returnees of the provincial government.
Based on the data
of the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) here, this
Provincial Livelihood Program for Rebel Returnees started in 2011 with the late
governor Leonard Mayaen to partly address the concerns of former communist
rebels who returned to the folds of the law.
This is
implemented through a memorandum of agreement signed by the provincial and
barangay governments and the rebel returnees. The MOA is renewable every year.
Non compliance to the terms of the MOA means termination from the program.
Under this
program, each RR beneficiary receives a monthly allowance of P5, 000 in
exchange for community service in the barangay and he has to work from Monday
to Friday except holidays.
Barangay
chairpersons are tasked to supervise and sign the daily time records of the
returnees in their respective barangays.
Not all rebel
returnees are qualified for the program. The rebel returnees with pending cases
in courts involving crimes against chastity, rape, torture, kidnapping for
ransom, use and trafficking of illegal drugs and other crimes for personal ends
and violations of international law, are not qualified.
The program does
not also include RRs who refuse to send their children to school who
are of school age; those who fail to live within the norms of the community;
and those who continue their relation/contact with the underground movement
such as the New People’s Army or the Cordillera People Democratic Front.
Originally, there
were 42 rebel returnee beneficiaries of the program. Others were removed due to
non-compliance to the terms of the MOA they have signed.
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