Caution on left-orgs recruiting students

The Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) cautioned parents and school officials about left-leaning organizations preying on their students.

“We, therefore, appeal to the parents, and to the schools’ officials to be mindful on the whereabouts, activities, and to the organizations that your students or children are joining as an initial and primary step to save our students and children from the deceptive NPA recruitment,” Eastmincom spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Ezra Balagtey said.

He added, “They always do deceptive recruitment in the guise of organizing a legitimate student organization and our schools and students in Eastern Mindanao are not exempted. Unwittingly, these students are being agitated and, eventually, being required to undergo immersion in the armed group before their eventual integration in the NPA organization.”

Thus, to address this problem and stop the recruit of the youth sector, Eastmincom expressed the need for a collaboration of different stakeholders concerned such as the parents, students, Learning institutions, Commission on Higher Education (CHED), Department of Education (DepEd), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), and other government agencies.