Kalinaw News: Army’s 91IB warns students on CTG deception, recruitment in Aurora anew

Posted to Kalinaw News (Apr 25, 2022): Army’s 91IB warns students on CTG deception, recruitment in Aurora anew



FORT MAGSAYSAY, Nueva Ecija – In a bid to protect the students from the Communist Terrorist Group’s deceptive recruitment, the Army’s 91st Infantry (SINAGTALA) Battalion conducted an Information Awareness Campaign at Wesleyan University-Philippines (WU-P) in Maria Aurora, Aurora on April 21, 2022.

Said activity was led by the unit’s Acting Civil-Military Operations Officer, CPT ROBERTO G. APELADO wherein it was attended by 350 Criminology students of WU-P Extension headed by Ms. Janice B Aguinaldo Ph.D, Program Coordinator of College of Criminal Justice Education.

CPT APELADO emphasized during the activity on how dangerous the CTG infiltrates the education system and employs its deceptive scheme in its recruitment activities in Colleges and Universities.

“The CTG’s front were showing videos of human rights atrocities to students, to incite them to fight against the government including lectures on the issues on poverty, tuition fee increase among others to agitate students and even those youths living in depressed and isolated areas who are vulnerable to false ideologies due to their innocence,” CPT APELADO said.

He then also warned the school administrations and parents about some members of the NPA infiltrating the schools and also churches,” CPT APELADO said.

Meanwhile, LTC JULITO B RECTO JR, Commanding Officer of 91IB, extended his gratitude to the WU-P Administration for inviting his unit to disseminate the right information on the government’s sincerity in promoting sustainable peace and development, especially in the geographically isolated areas.

“We will continue to intensify this information drive and dialogue to the youth, making them aware together with the different sectors in the implementation of the goals of the National Task Force to End local communist armed conflict. We encourage the remnants of the Komiteng Larangang Guerrilla Sierra Madre (KLG-SM) to lay down their arms and surrender to the government,” LTC RECTO said.

MGEN ANDREW D COSTELO PA, Commander of the 7th Infantry (KAUGNAY) Division, Philippine Army, said that the Army’s information awareness activities on CTG’s deceptive recruitment is vital to the campaign of the government in ending the local communist armed conflict in the countryside.

“We will be relentless in conducting this kind of activity as we know that the CTG mainly targets the youth in their deceptive recruitment in schools. That is why we are calling everyone’s cooperation if there are CTG activities in their Colleges and Universities to report such to the school administration or to the authorities,” said MGEN COSTELO.

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