INAUGURATED. Compostela Valley Province Governor Jayvee Tyron Uy (right) and Davao del Norte Governor Edwin Jubahib lead the cutting of ribbon of the country's first Operation Center of the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in Davao Region in Tagum City, Davao del Norte on Friday (Nov. 15). The facility will operate 24/7 and will put together the necessary information crucial to the Executive Order No. 70 issued in December 2018 by President Rodrigo Duterte to end local communist armed conflict. (PNA photo by Che Palicte)
TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte - The Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in Davao Region (RTF-ELCAC 11) launched here on Friday its first Operation Center (Opcen), touted to be the first in the Philippines.
Housed at the conference hall of Davao del Norte Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office (PDRRMO), officials said the RTF-ELCAC 11 Internal Security Operation (ISO) Coordination Center will operate 24/7 and will put together the necessary information crucial to the Executive Order No. 70 issued in December 2018 by President Rodrigo Duterte.
Regional Development Council (RDC) 11 chairperson Compostela Valley Province Governor Jayvee Tyron Uy said the member agencies will provide their personnel to man the Opcen, wherein all reports, data and programs of the RTF-ELCAC 11 will be gathered and consolidated.
Uy described the facility as “very strategic”, considering Tagum City is at the center of provinces and cities in Davao Region.
"We aim for this region to be the front-runner of this administration to end local communist armed conflict,” Uy said.
He said the center will monitor armed conflicts, labor issues involving the leftist union groups while ensuring that the facility's data are protected at all times.
"Anything that will hamper the development of the communities associated with insurgency will be addressed,” he said.
On the other hand, Davao del Norte Gov. Edwin Jubahib said E.O. 70 has led stakeholders of peace and development to reassess and reshape solutions to communist armed conflicts.
Jubahib said he considers the insurgency problem as a "manifestation of deeply-rooted problems," and assured that the Opcen would formulate better solutions to respond to the challenges.
The governor also called for a unified move to address hunger, poverty, insensitivity, social inequity and social injustice “which we can address through collective effort and application of good governance as a tool of local government units.”
Davao Oriental Gov. Nelson Dayanghirang, the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) chairperson, lauded the efforts of Jubahib in taking "swift action" in setting up the RTF ELCAC ISO Coordination Center.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1086227
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