DAVAO CITY—Villages in which at least P1.58 billion in counterinsurgency funds would be poured were not picked by the city government but a task force formed by President Rodrigo Duterte to end insurgency by the time he steps down in 2022, according to Mayor Sara Duterte.
Sara said it was not the city government but the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) that drew the final list of villages that would get funding from the task force in its proposed budget for 2021.
The city government, Sara said, listed only 15 villages as beneficiaries of the funds through the Davao Regional Task Force to end insurgency.
The NTF-Elcac, the mayor said, not only lis…
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