Army deploys CST in San Fernando, Bukidnon

MARAMAG, Bukidnon, Sept. 14 (PIA) — Army’s 88th Infantry “Maringal” Battalion (88IB) recently deployed community support teams (CSTs) to various barangays in San Fernando, Bukidnon.

Lt. Col. Franklin F. Fabic, 88IB Commander, said this is part of the army’s Community Support Program (CSP) that provides assistance in conducting community-based initiatives identified by the locals themselves in tandem with the local government.

These teams will be stationed in San Fernando’s seven barangays namely Namnam, Magkalungay, Cawayan, Little Baguio, Tugop, Nacabuklad, and Halapitan.

In a send-off ceremony during the convocation program at San Fernando town hall, Mayor Levi Edma warmly welcomed the troops.

“As a public servant, my concern is the development, needs, and security of the people. I believe that in our cooperation with the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and through Executive Order No. 70 of President Rodrigo Duterte, the empowered inclusiveness of the government to end local communist armed conflict will be in our hands. Thus, let us support our government’s community development projects and programs. I encourage you [people] to take part and actively engage in the government’s projects, programs, and activities because there can never be progress if there is no peace,” the mayor said.

Community Support Program (CSP) is part of the army’s multi-sector approach highlighting the concerted efforts of people in the village.

It aims to capacitate communities to bring in lasting solutions to conflicts in the locality so people could live peacefully and productively.

Likewise, Fabic urged the community’s active participation and cooperation in the government’s call to end insurgency.

"The other key to ending the local communist armed conflict is through collaboration and cooperation. As emphasized in E0 70, "inclusiveness" means the participation of the people. We will take care of the armed components of the CPP-NPA terrorists here in San Fernando. The Dragon Warriors will not stop chasing them," Fabic said. (Norven Jay Garcia, CMO Officer, 88th Infantry Battalion, 4ID, PA/PIA Bukidnon)

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