CPLA condemns impostors

THE UNIFIED Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army have condemned the misrepresentation of the group by impostor committing land grabbing and extortion.

Through a resolution, the Unified CPLA informed the Benguet Provincial Board and all government offices concerned of the presence of a group in Benguet.

“We condemned the misrepresentation of the CPLA by impostor groups committing criminal activities like extortions and land grabbing,” said the resolution while expressing their commitment to frontrunner

in the quest for autonomous region of the Cordillera.

“We, the Unified CPLA members of the Province of Benguet, do not recognize and take no part in the closure agreement between the Aquino Administration and few members of the CPLA,” underscored the group led by Chairman and Abra Vice Governor Ronald Balao-as.

During the Benguet Provincial Peace and Order Council meeting, Governor Crescencio Pacalso through a resolution does not recognize any group claiming to be members of the CPLA and condemn the acts of recruitment in the province.

The resolution added groups claiming to be members of the CPLA are recruiting in the province and is disturbing the peace among constituents.

PPOC resolution number 06 series of 2014 was also issued declaring the province as CPLA free and related recruitment activities are not allowed.

In 1898 the CPLA, a then militant organization based in the Cordillera region was founded by Conrado Balweg which has been long disbanded and its members have supposedly been integrated into the military.