Monday, December 23, 2019

Provincial Task Force-ELCAC engages youth to promote peace

From the Philippine Information Agency (Dec 23,2019): Provincial Task Force-ELCAC engages youth to promote peace (By Vicente W. Villavert)

SAN JOSE, Antique, Dec. 23 (PIA) - - The Campus Peace and Development Forum has engaged the student sector to take a clear picture of their role in community peace building.


PLTC Norby Escobar, Deputy Provincial Director for Operations of the Antique Police Provincial Office, emphasizes the need to guide the students or the youth sector to be more effective in the promotion of peace and development in their community during the Campus Peace and Development Forum held at the University of Antique, Sibalom town, recently. (/PIA Antique/TW V)

Close to 500 students and teachers attended the gathering held at the University of Antique (UA) in Sibalom town with no less than UA President Pablo Crespo urging the students to listen to the briefing on Executive Order No. 70, which aims to address root causes of insurgency through the Whole-of-Nation approach and the creation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).

DILG Antique Provincial Director Cherryl Tacda said that there is a need to create a national task force that will provide an efficient mechanism and structure for the implementation of the Whole-of-Nation Approach to aid in the realization of the collective aspiration of the Filipino people to attain inclusive and sustainable peace.

For his part, Lieutenant Colonel Dennis Q. Alcarde, the Philippine Air Force TOG 6 Group Commander, urged the students to love their parents and also to finish their college education in order to be effective in the promotion of peace and development in their community.

The activity also included the lecture of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, and the demonstration of K-9 Unit where students were amazed upon witnessing the skills of the explosive-detection dog.

Resource persons during the open forum warned the students that left-leaning organizations and other groups are doing a lot of strategies to recruit the youth as they are easy targets to manipulate.


The K-9 Unit Capability Demonstration Exercise features an explosive detection dog’s skills during the Campus Peace and Development Forum held at the University of Antique in Sibalom town, recently. (PIA Antique/TW V)

The Campus Peace and Development Forum was conducted by the provincial government through the Peace and Order and Public Safety in coordination with the UA, Philippine Air Force, Philippine Army, National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, Philippine National Police, and other stakeholders.

It will be recalled that the Provincial Task Force-ELCAC through POPS has already conducted two Medical, Dental and Information Caravans in the municipalities of San Remigio and Valderrama, this province. (JBG/VWV/PIA Antique)

https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1031939

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