MANILA, Philippines—Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesperson of a counterinsurgency task force that had been given a P19 billion budget for 2021, on Tuesday (April 20) admitted that the task force was profiling those behind the highly-popular community pantries that mushroomed nearly nationwide to provide free food to people who are struggling to put food on the table during the pandemic.
Parlade, spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), said leftist groups were exploiting the initiative of Good Samaritans and using it to advance their agenda.
“Because there are sectors trying to exploit this situation,” said Parlade, who had be…
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