CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija -- The Provincial Task Force on Ending Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) has announced the surrender of three Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) guerillas to local authorities in San Jose City, this province on Wednesday.
Col.Marvin Joe Saro, Nueva Ecija Police Director, identified the three CPP/NPA/NDF members as “Ka Eugene,” 56, a barangay Tanod, “Ka Butch,” 48, caretaker, and “Ka Warren/Waldo,” 51, carpenter, all residents of barangay Balbalungao in Lupao.
The surrenderees were former members of the Pulang Mandirigma under the Josefino Corpuz Command operating in northern Nueva Ecija. They are now under the custody of the 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company so they can avail of the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) program of the government for former rebels who will choose to return to the folds of the law and live a normal life with their families.
Saro said the surrender of CTG members to the police and military is a result of the whole-of-nation approach to end insurgency as stipulated in Executive Order 70, institutionalizing NTF-ELCAC which is being implemented in Central Luzon under Brig. Gen. Valeriano de Leon, chief of Police Regional Office 3.