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Former cadres, Jeffrey “Ka Eric” Celiz (left) and Noel “Ka Efren” Legaspi show during a press conference on Sunday February 28, alleged link of the Lumad Bakwit school with the CPP-NPA. | video capture of Pegeen Maisie Sararaña from the press conference
CEBU CITY, Philippines – Two Mindanao men, claiming to be former cadres of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), have alleged that the Lumad Bakwit school is a front for “a systematic human being on a large scale trafficking ”Of the CPP-NPA.
Jeffrey “Ka Eric” Celiz, who claims to be a former CPP-NPA cadre, said during a press conference at the Central Visayas Regional Police Office (PRO-7) in Cebu City on Sunday, February 28, that one of the The group’s Lumad Bakwit School’s goals was to help them generate funds internationally.
See: Ka Eric’s press conference on PRO-7
“The group (CPP-NPA) has three goals for the Lumad Bakwit school. One for financing purposes. Two is to win sympathy and (the third is) for recusal, ”said Celiz, who claimed he was a former CPP-NPA national coordinator and, according to an Inquirer report, an anti-Red“ star witness ”during the Committee. of the Senate of last year on Hearing of Defense and National Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation on red labeling.
A report by the Philippine News Agency also described Celiz as a former rebel, who is now a government consultant.
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Celiz claimed that Cebu City was part of the Lumad Bakwit School group’s “goal” to “generate funds, generate public sympathy and recruit members.”
He also said that he and Noel “Ka Efren” Legaspi came to Cebu from Mindanao to prove that the system behind the Lumad Bakwit school was allegedly linked to a CPP-NPA network.
“Ka Efren” or Noel Legaspi, on the other hand, claimed that he was a former spokesman for the Regional Revolutionary Committee of the New People’s Army-Far South of Mindanao.
Legaspi also witnessed Senate hearings on “red labels” last year.
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Meanwhile, Celiz also alleged that the Lumad Bakwit school in Cebu was nothing more than an extension of the large program planned by the CPP-NPA in the country specifically in the Mindanao areas.
He claimed that indigenous children were allegedly recruited from his community in Mindanao to be an instrument for his ‘project proposal’ through the ‘Mindanao Interfaith Solidarity Foundation’ (MISFI).
“Having the so-called ‘Lumad Bakwit Schools” correct in the Cebu area is no different from the CPP-NPA-NDF’s program to illegally hunt and mislead and mislead the indigenous youth of Mindanao to show they are harassed by the government, the military and the police, ”said Ka Eric.
(Having the so-called “Lumad Bakwit Schools in the Cebu area is similar to the CPP-NPA-NDF program to illegally bring and mislead indigenous children from Mindanao to show that they were being harassed by the government, the military and the police.)
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During the press conference, Celiz and Legaspi also brought with them former teachers from the Bakwit schools, who, according to the two, were among the 20 teachers of the 300 who have already surrendered to the police.
Celiz and Legaspi claimed that one of the seven detainees in the Talamban school rescue operation in Cebu City was allegedly the main radical infiltrator and youth agitator of the CPP-NPA.
Read: Charges filed against 7 arrested in Lumad ‘rescue’ operations
Both former cadres alleged that this was the purpose of the group that supposedly created the Save Our Schools Network (SOS) so that this radical infiltrator infiltrates and that the group’s programs are recognized by other sectors.
It was first reported that the SOS Network was the organization behind the Bakwit School. In previous reports, the group defined bakwit as the “ultimate expression” of Lumad children who descended from their ancestral land after they were allegedly militarized from their community through the forcible closure of schools.
Consequently, these Lumad children went to Cebu to seek refuge after the incident.
Read: Police ‘rescue’ Lumad minors in Cebu; university officials surprised with the operation
On February 15, 2021, PRO-7 policemen together with the other government agencies, had a ‘rescue operation’ to rescue a total of 19 minors in a retirement home inside a university in Barangay Talamban, City of Cebu that led to the arrest of seven other adults.
The seven detainees were reportedly charged with kidnapping and serious illegal detention.
Meanwhile, the Save Our Schools Network (SOS) issued a statement on the inconsistencies of the PNP in the handling of the detained teacher Roshelle Porcadilla, one of the seven people arrested in the rescue operation on February 15.
Watch: SOS supporters lightning rally in PRO-7
Some SOS supporters held a rapid response protest in front of PRO-7 on the night of February 28 in support of Porcadilla.
“Earlier today at 9 am, Ms. Roshelle was taken out of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) to be taken to PRO-7 under the orders of PNP chief Debold Sinas,” said SOS in his statement on Sunday, February 28.
“The SOS team went to PRO-7 only to be told that Police Colonel Robert Limbawan had already taken Ms. Roschelle away. Until now his whereabouts are unknown, “said the SOS in its statement.
The protesters said there was no truth to the lies that the PNP was allegedly peddling.
Police Colonel Robert Limbawan claimed that Professor Roshelle’s lawyer was not NUPL-Cebu (National Union of People’s Lawyers-Cebu).
However, SOS claimed that Professor Roschelle actually signed the request for a preliminary investigation document confirming that NUPL-Cebu would represent her.
The group also condemned the PNP’s alleged “blatant display of fascism” in the statement.
The group also said they would continue to call for the release of the detained “Bakwit School 7” which included Professor Roschelle.
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