Army expects hike in NPA surrenderees with E-CLIP implementation

From the Philippine Information Agency (Feb 22, 2019): Army expects hike in NPA surrenderees with E-CLIP implementation

CAMP PERALTA, Jamindan, Capiz, Feb -- Army's 3rd Infantry Division commander Major General Dinoh Dolina is anticipating a snowball of Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) terrorist surrenderees in Panay and Negros Islands.

“The growing number of former NPAs in the region receiving reintegration assistance under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) will encourage the remaining communist terrorists to return to the folds of the law and live normal lives,” Dolina said.

Recently, 11 former NPAs in Negros Island who surrendered to the 62nd Infantry Battalion and 3rd Civil-Military Operations Battalion each received P21,000 worth of reintegration assistance from the Interior and local government of Negros Occidental.

In January 29 of this year, a former rebel from the municipality of Cuartero, Capiz who voluntarily surrendered to the government authorities also received a financial assistance amounting to P10,000 from the provincial government of Capiz.

“These E-CLIP beneficiaries are the living proofs of the government’s sincerity in helping those who courageously abandoned the senseless and bloody armed struggle. This sincerity will erase the reluctance of the communist terrorists to give up their selfish fight,” Dolina said.

Further, he reiterated his call to the remaining members of the CPP-NPA terrorists to lay down their arms and avail the E-CLIP for them to start a new and normal life together with their family. (Capt. Eduardo Precioso Jr./DPAO/PIA-Capiz)

https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1018862