NTF ELCAC STATEMENT ON VP LENI ROBREDO

Leni Robredo is a joke.

A most unfunny joke.

She is also a grievous traitor to her country and must be exposed for the danger she presents to our democracy.

She gives cover to the deadliest enemies of our country - the terrorist CPP NPA NDF- and just when we are about to drive a stake through its heart, Leni Robredo, using the powers vested on her by our Constitution, has given them a powerful shield and has taken up the sword for them.

She says she wants to abolish the NTF ELCAC and pursue, in its stead, a whole-of government approach to “improve the targeting and increase of resources for basic services and communities with special focus on conflict-affected areas. Kapag sinabi nating services, that would include education, health, social protection, basic infrastructure for livelihood, communication and connectivity, microfinance”.

And she wants to do this to lessen what she calls “the purely militaristic approach” not knowing that she has defined the very structure, purpose and strategy of the NTF ELCAC that we have been implementing- to great success- for the past 3 years now.

Majority of Filipinos know this by now- except Leni Robredo.

So for the information of Leni Robredo, the NTF ELCAC is made up of 12 clusters, with each cluster headed by an agency in charge of its member clusters.

These are:

1. Local Government Empowerment Cluster

Lead Agency: DILG

Cluster Head: Usec Marlo L. Iringan

Cluster Members:

DOJ

DOF

NCIP

DND

AFP

PNP

PCOO

Private Sector

2. Basic Services Cluster

Lead Agency: DILG

Cluster Head: Usec Marlo L. Iringan

Cluster Members:

DSWD

DEPED

DOH

CHED

DOLE

DOJ

DILG

DAR

NCIP

DND

NHA

HUDCC

AFP

PNP

PCOO

OPAPP

NAPC

Private Sector

3. Poverty Reduction, Livelihood, & Employment Cluster

Lead Agency: TESDA

Cluster Head: Usec Gabriel Quisumbing

Cluster Members:

DA

DAR

TESDA

DTI

LBP

DOT

PCA

NIA

DENR

NCIP

DSWD

BFAR

CDA

DAR

DILG

AFT

PNP

PCOO

OPAPP

NAPC

Private Sector

4. Infrastructure and Resource Management Cluster

Lead Agency: DENR & DPWH

Head: Usec Maximo Carvajal

Asec Nonita Caguiao

Cluster Members:

DA

DOTR

DOE

CCC

DAR

NCIP

AFP

PNP

PCOO

OPAPRU

Private Sector

5. International Engagement

Lead Agency: DFA & NICA

Cluster Head: Usec Brigido Dulay

Cluster Members:

DOJ

ISAFP

NICA

BI

DOLE

NCIP

AFP

PNP

PCOO

PHRCS

Private Sector

6. Legal Cooperation

Lead Agency: OSG

Cluster Head: Justice Angelita V. Miranda

Cluster Members:

DOJ

NBI

NICA

AFP

AFP

PNP

ISAFP

NCIP

DAR

NCIP

PCOO

Private Sector

7. Strategic Communication

Lead Agency: PCOO

Cluster Head: Usec Lorraine Marie T. Badoy

Cluster Members:

DEPED

DFA

CHED

AFP

PNP

NICA

NCIP

DAR

PCW

CWC

Private Sector

8. Situational Awareness and Knowledge Management

Lead Agency: NICA

Cluster Head: DG Alex Paul Monteagudo

Cluster Members:

DND

DILG

AFP

PNP

NBI

PIA

PPSC

PNTI

NCIP

PCOO

Private Sector

9. Local Peace Engagement

Lead Agency: DILG & OPAPRU

Cluster Head: Usec Marlo L. Iringan

Cluster Members:

DND

DEPED

DOG

DOH

DPWH

NIA

NEA

NICA

AFP

PNP

NCIP

DAR

PCOO

Private Sector

10. E-CLIP and Amnesty

Lead Agency: DND & DILG

Cluster Head: Usec Reynaldo Mapagu

Cluster Members:

DOJ

OP

DSWD

HUDCC

NHA

NCIP

DOH

TESDA

DTI

DAR

DA

DEPED

CHED

PHIL HEALTH

NICA

AFP

PNP

PCOO

Private Sector

11. Peace, Law Enforcement, & Development Support

Lead Agency: DND

Cluster Head: Usec Cesar B. Yano

Cluster Members:

AFP

PNP

DILG

NBI

PCG

NCIP

PCOO

Private Sector

12. Sectoral Unification, Capacity Empowerment, and Mobilization Building

Lead Agency: DILG & NCIP

Cluster Head: Usec Epimaco Densing

Cluster Members:

DND

AFP

PNP

NICA

DSWD

DOLE

DA

DEPED

PCUP

PCW

NYC

CHED

BFAR

OPAPRU

DOJ

PCOO

DAR

NAPC

Private Sector

The entire government closing ranks to end this 52 year communist salot through good governance.

And because the government has come together to serve the least among us- communities victimized by the CPP NPA NDF for decades- the purely military approach that was the sole strategy of all past administrations has been reduced by maybe 90%.

At the very core of the NTF ELCAC is good governance- as spelled out to us by our President who clearly elucidated good governance as the only solution to ending this 52 year reign of terror of the terrorist CPP NPA NDF.

The entire Philippines knows this by now except the Vice President who cavorts with the devils- these communist terrorists - and has faithfully been mouthing their propaganda lines and pushing their agenda- like the defunding of the Barangay Development Program that will wipe out terrorism in the countryside and has the vast potential of taking millions out of poverty.

Leni Robredo, like the terrorists she dances with, wants the poorest of the poor to remain stuck in extreme and generational poverty by denying them their right to farm to market roads, adequate shelter, clean water, electricity, livelihood projects, school houses, irrigation systems, health centers etc that the BDP will give them.

She also says she will resume the phoney peace talks that is really just another weapon in the arsenal of the terrorist CPP NPA NDF to weaken government.

“Peace talks” for these deceitful terrorists is shorthand for “LET TERROR REIGN” because for each and every time past presidents fell for this lie and negotiated with these communist terrorists, the recruitment of our children and our indigenous peoples into this terrorist organization experienced an exponential increase and the pile of bodies of our fallen soldiers and policemen reached stratospheric heights.

Yet this Vice President is eager to sit at the table and negotiate with terrorists once again.

Something that our President has long closed his door to permanently.

He has instead pursued localized peace talks which has resulted in over 20,000 peaceful surrenders.

An unprecedented accomplishment with deep implications to the sustainable but elusive peace that we have been chasing after for decades now.

That’s over 20,000 Filipinos who are no longer killing fellow Filipinos.

And over 20,000 Filipinos being rehabilitated and given a new shot in life as productive citizens of this country via our Enhanced - Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) that provides cash incentives, housing, livelihood, education, de radicalization, etc to our former rebels who have rejoined society.

The country has come together - like our President has asked us to- to finally end the life of this terrorist organization that has brought so much grief and suffering to our people and that has obstructed our road to progress.

And once again, the out of touch Vice President is left in the dust mumbling CPP propaganda lines while at the same time putting our country in serious danger.

There are no other words for Leni Robredo, but this: a treasonous traitor to her country.

She deserves the strongest condemnation for putting the most vulnerable sector in our society- our children, our indigenous peoples, our farmers, our fisherfolk, our urban poor- in harm’s way and for serving our country to the terrorist CPP NPA NDF on a silver platter to be eaten up whole.

For this and many more reasons, Leni Robredo must never be trusted with our country.

Do not vote for this traitor.

Do not vote for this ally of the terrorist CPP NPA NDF.

Undersecretary Lorraine Marie T. Badoy

Spokesperson for Sectoral Concerns, NTF ELCAC