{"id":225342,"date":"2019-08-01T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=225342"},"modified":"2019-08-01T19:01:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T23:01:01","slug":"esperon-presses-perjury-raps-vs-red-front-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/01\/esperon-presses-perjury-raps-vs-red-front-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Esperon presses perjury raps vs. Red front groups"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: National security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., vice chairperson of NTF – ELCAC, in a press conference, explains the government’s Whole-of – Nation approach in ending local communist armed conflict in the country that generally aims to bring in development and progress ln every community in the country. (CCD\/PIA CAR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon on Thursday personally appeared before the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office at the hearing of the perjury charges he filed against groups which initiated the writ of amparo petitions against him, President Rodrigo Duterte and other officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) which were subsequently dismissed by the Court of Appeals (CA).<\/p>\n

City Senior Prosecutor Nilo Pe\u00f1aflor gave the respondents until August 15 to answer the perjury complaint filed by Esperon against Karapatan, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) and Gabriela.<\/p>\n

“(Dinemanda)<\/em>\u00a0nila ang<\/em>\u00a0President,\u00a0ako<\/em>\u00a0and seven others\u00a0eh di nakita na ang mga papel nila ay peke<\/em>. That’s clear perjury, (They sued the President, me and seven others and so it was discovered that their documentation is fake and that’s clear perjury,” Esperon told newsmen in a chance interview after the hearing.<\/p>\n

In the case of RMP which runs the 55 Salugpungan Ta\u2019tanu Igkanugon Community Learning Center Inc. (Salugpungan) whose operations were earlier ordered suspended by the Department of Education, Esperon said their registration was “revoked in 2003”.<\/p>\n

“(K)ung di sila duly<\/em>\u00a0registered,\u00a0bakit sila tumatanggap ng<\/em>\u00a0donations (If they are not duly registered, why are they accepting donations?” he said.<\/p>\n

Esperon, citing reports of the military and police on the ground and the testimonies of the Mindanao Indigenous People’s Counsel elders and leaders, said there was an unmistakable pattern of training anti-government armed rebels by these schools.<\/p>\n

As an example, Esperon said these schools have a different “national” anthem which they teach to students.<\/p>\n

Students are also taught assembly and disassembly of firearms and learn the alphabets with different anti-government slogans starting with “A for\u00a0armas<\/em>\u00a0(weapon)”.<\/p>\n

More importantly, Esperon said the schools do not issue credentials to students which would allow their wards to take further studies.<\/p>\n

“(A)ng nakakapagtaka, bakit di sila nagbibigay ng<\/em>\u00a0(What is puzzling is they do not give) learners’ reference number (LRN).\u00a0Kung wala kang<\/em>LRN\u00a0paano ka mag<\/em>-move\u00a0on sa<\/em>\u00a0(If you do not have an LRN, how do you move to the) next higher level of education.\u00a0Paano ka makaka<\/em>-transfer\u00a0sa ibang<\/em>\u00a0(How will you be able to transfer to another) school. In other words,\u00a0di na<\/em>-recognize for all the years and time that you will stay in that school,\u00a0‘yun pala di<\/em>\u00a0recognized\u00a0ng ibang<\/em>\u00a0(The years and time of your stay in that school will not be recognized by other) DepEd schools.\u00a0Eh di ano mangyayari sa mga<\/em>\u00a0(What will happen to the) students, they will remain at their mercy,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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