ENDING INSURGENCY. Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Assistant Secretary Francisco Cruz urged state workers in Pangasinan to help in ending local communist armed conflict during the Dagyaw Open Government and Participatory Governance Regional town hall meeting on Thursday (August 22, 2019). Cruz said it is high time to pursue development as the government now listens and is responsive to the people's needs. (Photo Courtesy of Provincial Government of Pangasinan)
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – An official of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) urged on Thursday state workers in Pangasinan to help in ending local communist armed conflict by delivering the basic social services to their constituents.
“Let us help in ending the five decades existence of leftists that has caused so much trouble, too much death and slowed down development in our country. Let us help end local communist armed conflict through retooled community support program (RCSP),” DILG Assistant Secretary Francisco Cruz said in his speech at the Dagyaw Open Government and Participatory Governance Regional town hall meeting here.
He noted the RCSP is an avenue for the engagement and dialogue between the people in the grassroots level and the national government.
“You could do much in ending local communist armed conflict by convincing the citizens that the government is doing something and is not absent. Those whose minds are being poisoned by the leftists, you could correct them,” he said.
Cruz said government officials and employees in Pangasinan could convince people who are on the “wrong way to redirect their paths” and join the government in developing the people’s lives and the communities.
“You will also be the ones who will embrace former rebels returning to the mainstream society and make them stay there and leave the life of rebellion,” he added.
Cruz also encouraged the Pangasinenses to say no to local communist armed conflict, and to pursue peace and order and development.
“This is the time to be one in development because our government now listens and is responsive to the people’s needs,” he added. (PNA)
