April 23, 2021 HOUSE Minority Leader Stephen Paduano is against the proposal to defund the P19-billion budget of the National Task Force to nd Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac).
Paduano is even pushing for the increase of the budget, which is intended for the development of insurgency-cleared barangays all over the country.
He said the P19-billion budget is “too small” to cover all barangays declared as insurgency-free.
Western Visayas is getting P1.48 billion, including P520 million to be received by 26 insurgency-cleared barangays in Negros Occidental, majority of which were located in Escalante City, records of the Department of Budget and Management showed.
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