A TOTAL of 600 residents in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental availed the Gobyerno Serbisyo Para sa Bayan also called as “Serbisyong Malasakit,” which is the 2nd activity of Negros Oriental Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NORTF-ELCAC) following the “Dagyawan sa Barangay: Talakayan ng Mamayan.”
The services offered include medical and dental consultation, medicine distribution, haircut, distribution of livestock, seedlings and farm materials, selling of NFA rice, processing of civil registry documents, issuance of government IDs and job hiring.
The provincial and city governments headed by Negros Oriental Governor Roel Degamo and Guihulngan City Mayor Carlo Jorge Joan Reyes, together with the different national and local agencies from the Office of the Presidential Assistant for the Visayas (OPAV); Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP); Philippine National Police (PNP); Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG); Department of Agriculture (DA); Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR); Department of Health (DOH); Department of Science and Technology (DOST); National Food Authority (NFA); Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) gathered in Barangay Trinidad in order to provide frontline services to its people.
The 2-day activities from September 10 to 11 (Dagyawan and Serbisyong Malasakit) are only two of the many future endeavors of NORTF-ELCAC that was created last July 29, 2019 as a holistic solution employing whole-of-nation approach in addressing the root causes of insurgency in the province and anchored in Executive Order Number 30 of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The task force aims to prioritize the delivery of basic services to the most distant barangays identified to have CPP-NPA-NDF influence.
It can be recalled that it is in a nearby school in Barangay Trinidad where the NPAs held their 50th anniversary celebration last December 2018 as seen in the NPA uploaded video in YouTube.
Brigadier General Benedict Arevalo, 303rd Infantry Brigade Commander who represented the AFP in said event stated, “The delivery of government services to the far-flung barangays is the long-term solution to the insurgency problem, not just the presence of military and police in the area.”