In response to a query of the local media during the Panginsayod ha PIA held Tuesday at Hotel Alejandro, this city, Brig. General Ramil Bitong, assistant division commander of the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army said he is hopeful that the next leadership will sustain the project even if President Duterte is no longer in power.
“I am positive that the program will actually be sustained or even more, supported by the next leadership,” he said.
The institutionalization of the process or the system which already started is a manifestation that the government is on the right track. Bitong believes that once the system is institutionalized there is no turning back anymore citing an example the information provided to the people which can no longer be retracted.
Meanwhile, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency Deputy Regional Director Eustacio Bacabac admitted their predicament after the term of the president. However, with the intensified awareness campaign on EO 70 he is looking forward for a more positive development in the future.
Thus, he asked the participants to work together in order that this program of the government will be implemented successfully.
In the said forum, Bacabac also said the forum is a very opportune time to come together with the media especially that at this point in time the government is calling a whole of a nation approach to participate in the campaign to end the local communist armed conflict.
He emphasized that a strong partnership with the media is the hallmark of a well-informed citizenry.
“The vital role of the media in peace and development cannot be downplayed so the citizens could be fully informed of the government’s peace and development initiatives as active stakeholders of just and lasting peace as well as sustainable development,”
Bacabac further said. With the sharing of the strategies of the government in addressing the five decade problem of insurgency, the government is now motivated that the members of the media would join the journey for the success of EO70.
With barely months after the operationalization of the task force ELCAC all the 12 clusters have already showed some significant accomplishments.
In the region, more than 100 advocacy campaigns were already conducted by the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict.
Executive order 70 signed by President Duterte last December 4, 2018 calls for the institutionalization of a whole of a nation approach in attaining inclusive and sustainable peace. (PIA/cba)
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