Published April 23, 2021, 3:51 PM
“We will not stoop to his level.” Senator Joel Villanueva had this to say Friday, April 23, after Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade, Jr. called lawmakers “stupid” for pushing to defund the government’s anti-insurgency task force over its red-tagging and profiling of community pantry volunteers.
(Senate of the Philippines / Facebook) “We’ll not stoop down to this level of pettiness. Name-calling will not put food on anyone’s table,” he said on Twitter.
The Senate, he said, has the responsibility to ensure that government funds the peoples’ money are being spent for public interest.
Villanueva pitched for the defundng of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), after Parlade, its spokesperson, likened Ana Patricia Non to “Satan’s apple”, in an attempt to justify their claim that organizers of community pantries are linked to communist rebels.
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