Mayor Gabino Ganggangan of Sadanga, Mountain Province, as an invited resource speaker for the Joint Cordillera RTF - ELCAC and RPOC, shares his municpality's initiative to ban CPP - NPA front organizations from their locality. (CCD/PIA CAR)
BAGUIO CITY, June 24 (PIA) - - Sadanga Mayor Gabino Ganggangan challenges all local government officials in the region, from the barangay up to the provincial level, to make a stand and help end local insurgency in the country by banning in their respective localities not only the entry of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New Peoples Army (CPP-NPA) but also the front organizations that work as propagandist of extremism.
Ganggangan issued the challenge during the June 19 joint meeting of the Cordillera Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC) and the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) meeting here presided by Agriculture Secretary William Dar, the Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for the Cordillera Region.
Ganggangan outlined that while the national government and its armed forces are doing the battle with the CPP-NPA, it is also high time for local local officials to make a stand and prove which side of the war they are in.
“My call to the leaders of Cordillera, why don’t we challenge these organizations claiming to be the voice of our constituents. It is about time that the real representatives of the people which are actually the elected officials having been given the mandate of the people when they were elected upon. It is high time for them to talk”, he stressed.
“We should declare (Persona Non Grata) the CPA and other front organizations. I think that is where the local government can contribute into”, he added.
For Sadanga, the mayor shared that they just made a resolution signed by all the punong barangays declaring the Cordillera People’s Alliance and other CPP – NPA front organizations persona non grata in the municipality.
He outlined the need to stop the communist propaganda activities and recruitment of their constituents into the communist armed conflict, which may lead into fighting among relatives as many of their people are also part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
On possible laws or rights that may be violated by the resolution, Ganggangan said that they invoke their indigenous “ugali” (practices).
“We have the right as a people to ban anybody from entering our homeland,” he stressed.
Secretary Dar lauded Ganggangan and the municipality of Sadanga for the initiative and calls on the RTF – ELCAC to consider such local initiatives in the campaign strategy of the task force.
For the meeting, each cluster of the regional task force presented updates and accomplishment reports. The RPOC also provided reports on peace and order and security, illegal drug situation and the campaign against illegal logging. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
BAGUIO CITY, June 24 (PIA) - - Sadanga Mayor Gabino Ganggangan challenges all local government officials in the region, from the barangay up to the provincial level, to make a stand and help end local insurgency in the country by banning in their respective localities not only the entry of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New Peoples Army (CPP-NPA) but also the front organizations that work as propagandist of extremism.
Ganggangan issued the challenge during the June 19 joint meeting of the Cordillera Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (ELCAC) and the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) meeting here presided by Agriculture Secretary William Dar, the Cabinet Officer for Regional Development and Security (CORDS) for the Cordillera Region.
Ganggangan outlined that while the national government and its armed forces are doing the battle with the CPP-NPA, it is also high time for local local officials to make a stand and prove which side of the war they are in.
“My call to the leaders of Cordillera, why don’t we challenge these organizations claiming to be the voice of our constituents. It is about time that the real representatives of the people which are actually the elected officials having been given the mandate of the people when they were elected upon. It is high time for them to talk”, he stressed.
“We should declare (Persona Non Grata) the CPA and other front organizations. I think that is where the local government can contribute into”, he added.
For Sadanga, the mayor shared that they just made a resolution signed by all the punong barangays declaring the Cordillera People’s Alliance and other CPP – NPA front organizations persona non grata in the municipality.
He outlined the need to stop the communist propaganda activities and recruitment of their constituents into the communist armed conflict, which may lead into fighting among relatives as many of their people are also part of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police.
On possible laws or rights that may be violated by the resolution, Ganggangan said that they invoke their indigenous “ugali” (practices).
“We have the right as a people to ban anybody from entering our homeland,” he stressed.
Secretary Dar lauded Ganggangan and the municipality of Sadanga for the initiative and calls on the RTF – ELCAC to consider such local initiatives in the campaign strategy of the task force.
For the meeting, each cluster of the regional task force presented updates and accomplishment reports. The RPOC also provided reports on peace and order and security, illegal drug situation and the campaign against illegal logging. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
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