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Esperon inspires

By Mauro Gia Samonte / The Manila Times


It fattens the heart that Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr., national security adviser and vice chairman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), has come out expressing unflagging commitment to succeed in his mandate to carry out the objectives of the task force. Lesser souls would have buckled down to pressure from no less than 15 senators seemingly gone passionate in seeing the government anti-insurgency campaign crumble. The latest development is that the task force has come under fire from a good majority of th