MANILA, Philippines — Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. will “definitely” be relieved from his position as spokesperson of the government’s anti-insurgency task force before he retires.
Senator Panfilo Lacson, chairman of the upper chamber’s defense committee, said Monday that this was the assurance given to him by National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Eclac) vice-chairman Hermogenes Esperon Jr. in one of their text conversations.
But Lacson maintained that Parlade, who has been embroiled in red-tagging controversies, should be immediately removed from the task force because for him to continue staying as its spokesperson is unconstitutional.
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