MANILA, Philippines — Administration ally and House Deputy Speaker Mikee Romero is pushing for a probe on the utilization of the funds of the National Task Force to Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), saying the recent links of its officials to red-tagging issues “is simply too wicked to be ignored.”
Under House Resolution No. 1729, a copy of which was sent to the media on Tuesday, Romero pointed out that for the past months, the NTF-Elcac has been the subject of heavy criticism and condemnation of the public “owing mostly to its highly questionable and controversial habit and practice of red-tagging various individuals through mainstream or social media.”
Romero spec…
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