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One step forward, two steps back.
This seems to be the peace and order situation of Negros Oriental.
About four years ago, Negros Oriental was declared a conflict-manageable and development-ready Province. Members of the New People’s Army were labelled back then as “remnants” who had been “reduced to an insignificant level”.
There was a big show in May 2015, when 33 people who were called ex-rebels were given P65,000 each as immediate assistance and livelihood assistance by Philippine Army officials and the Governor.
With Wednesday’s gruesome incident in the hinterlands of Ayungon, where four policemen on an intelligence mission were captured, tortured, and later killed by forces believed to be NPA rebels, it is a big wonder how we have managed to deteriorate to this level in so short a time.
What did we do five years ago that we are not anymore doing now?
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If poverty is said to be the cause of insurgency, then the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer program has not lived up to expectations.
So many are still poor, the Department of Social Welfare & Development notes. And they are likewise puzzled.
Perhaps the challenge lies in how to make the people continually productive and not going hungry. We have a lot of band aid solutions to poverty alleviation, but these are propounded by technocrats who live far from the realities of the communities they wish to serve.
In contrast, the Communist Party professes that to be effective and successful in their mission, they must “live with the people”.
Could this be a challenge to our barangay officials to make themselves more relevant in the lives of the people they live with?
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