{"id":180794,"date":"2018-09-10T03:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=180794"},"modified":"2018-09-10T03:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T07:37:29","slug":"lorenzana-no-division-among-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/10\/lorenzana-no-division-among-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzana: No &#8216;division&#8217; among troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_180795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-180795\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dnd-sec-lorenzana-afp-coc-sept-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-180795\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dnd-sec-lorenzana-afp-coc-sept-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dnd-sec-lorenzana-afp-coc-sept-10.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/dnd-sec-lorenzana-afp-coc-sept-10-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-180795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Kung merong lalapit sa inyo na gaganun (If there are those who will ask you), trying to recruit you, wag nyo pakinggan (don&#8217;t listen to them).&#8221; (PNA photo by Priam F. Nepomuceno)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday denied reports that the military is divided.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think so, that\u2019s just a rumor.\u00a0<em>Alam mo &#8216;yung gumagawa ng istoryang ganyan, marami (daw) nang<\/em>disgruntled\u00a0<em>na<\/em>\u00a0active military (personnel)\u00a0<em>pero wala naman kaming nakikita<\/em>\u00a0(There are those who really make up stories like that. That there are those active miltary personnel who are disgruntled but we haven&#8217;t seen any),,&#8221; Lorenzana said in an ambush interview at the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Commissioned Officers Club in Camp Aguinaldo.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Antonio Trillanes IV earlier claimed that members of the AFP are divided over the declaration of his amnesty void ab initio based on Presidential Proclamation 572.<\/p>\n<p>When asked on the morale of AFP personnel, the DND chief said it is very high.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Mataas (ang\u00a0<\/em>morale<em>)<\/em>,<em>\u00a0katataas lang ng sweldo nila ng doble di mataas ang<\/em>\u00a0morale\u00a0<em>nila<\/em>\u00a0(Their morale is high. Their salaries were recently doubled so their morale is high). So that\u2019s not true but destabilization (is) actually (true),\u00a0<em>pero ung galing sa<\/em>\u00a0(but as for the) CPP\/NPA (Communist Party of the Philippines\/New People&#8217;s Army) which they hatched in 2016 and it was finalized in 2017.\u00a0<em>Meron na kasing<\/em>\u00a0(There is the) Oust Duterte Movement,\u00a0<em>pinapaano nila yan sa mga galamay nila<\/em>\u00a0(Their minions are working on it). I don\u2019t know kung\u00a0<em>sasakyan yan ng ibang grupo<\/em>\u00a0(if other groups are working with them), we do not know,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lorenzana advised troops to ignore individuals asking them to join destablization efforts against the government<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Kung merong lalapit sa inyo na gaganun<\/em>\u00a0(If there are those who will ask you), trying to recruit you<em>, wag nyo pakinggan<\/em>\u00a0(don&#8217;t listen to them),&#8221; the DND chief stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Monday denied reports that the military is divided. &#8220;I don\u2019t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":180795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}