MANILA, Philippines — The P16-billion fund for the development of barangays cleared of insurgency, P9 billion of which has already been released, cannot be “abused” by the administration’s anti-insurgency task force, Senator Panfilo Lacson assured on Friday.
Lacson gave this assurance to lawmakers eyeing to defund or realign the budget lodged under the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) due to red-tagging concerns.
Lacson said the fund for the barangay development program will not be at the disposal of the security sector since it is part of the Special Purpose Fund under the Assistance to Local Government U…
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