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MANILA, Philippines — The government’s anti-insurgency task force’s budget cuts will not only have an impact on this year’s statewide execution of the Barangay Development Program (BDP), but they will also “tear the hearts” of the beneficiaries.

Lorraine Badoy, spokesman and Communications Undersecretary of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), said at a news conference on Monday that hundreds of barangays were anticipating implementing the previously agreed development projects in their communities.

The NTF-ELCAC, however, may not be able to complete additional initiatives in other communist-cleared areas due to the budget drop, according to Badoy.

“What occurred here is that we let our kababayans (countrymen) go through the entire process and choose farm-to-market road projects because we told them we’d give them $20 million, so they went through that process from January to December.” They were ecstatic because they were finally getting farm-to-market roads, water, and schools, which they had been asking for for years,” Badoy explained.

The NTF-ELCAC obtained a budget allocation of PHP17.1 billion in December of last year, which is significantly less than the PHP28.1 billion suggested by Malacanang to Congress for the task force’s BDP for territories freed from the insurgency.

Because residents in the recipient areas already knew they would receive PHP20 million for BDP projects, Badoy said they have no choice but to explain why some politicians refuse to give them the proposed budget.

“When I talked to governors whose budgets were cut, they were really hurting, and even the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) — because they’ll be telling our kababayans, sorry, we don’t have it,” she said.

Badoy explained that the insurgency is occurring because the government is failing to serve its citizens and that the only way to fix the problem is to promote good governance, which is the NTF-major ELCAC’s goal.

“We made them happy, we made them expect, and then we let them down again in December.” “These are the communities that have been held by communist groups for a long time,” she noted. “We asked them to carry more than their fair share, and because of these senators, we’ll ask them again.” “It has no heart.”

Badoy lambasted the parliamentarians who voted to decrease the NTF-funding ELCAC’s for 2022.

“It’s simply heartbreaking,” she says. “Of course, magagawan ng paraan (there is still a way),” she responded.

Beneficiary villages can buy or construct farm-to-market roads, school buildings, water and sanitation systems, livelihood programs, and health stations through the task force’s BDP, a counter-insurgency plan, which has an initial budget of PHP20 million.

BDP attempts to deliver numerous government initiatives in conflict-torn and geographically remote areas that have been “cleansed” of communist rebel influence.

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