Dalog, execs give cash to NPA surrenderees

NATONIN, Mountain Province -- Nine members of the New People’s Army-Communist Party of the Philippines surrendered to authorities and received financial and livelihood assistance under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP) of the government here on May 20.
    The turnover of E-CLIP benefits coincided with the blessing and inauguration of the new Natonin MPS building.
    Rep. Maximo Y. Dalog Jr. handed over livelihood support including five rice mill machines and one welding machine to the six rebel returnees.
    Dalog was assisted by lawyer Sixto T. Rodriguez, assistant regional director of Dept. of Labor and Employment Cordillera.
Mountain Province police director Col. Ruben B. Andiso also gave cash assistance to other three surrenderees.
    Five of them, natives of this town, surrendered their firearms while the other four were from other municipalities of Mountain Province.
    During the program, Cordillera police director Brig. Gen. Ronald O. Lee welcomed the nine surrenderees saying they would now have peaceful lives with their families.

    Their surrender was made possible through the provincial police office’s “Oplan Binnaga” which convinced the rebel returnees to return to the folds of the government and start life anew.