Anyare? Robredo’s praise for AFP draws flak

Some personalities are getting disillusioned with Vice President Leni Robredo for lauding the military’s independence and supporting the mandate of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).

Writer Katrina Stuart Santiago criticized Robredo Sunday (November 28) for praising the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ independence as an institution.

“HA?!? What’s happening,” Santiago tweeted. “Banda saan na-maintain ang independence? Dito po ba sa fistbump,” she added, posting a photo of soldiers doing a fist bump with President Rodrigo Duterte.

Santiago wondered if Robredo is similar to Duterte. “Or is #VPLeni like #Duterte who says: ‘If I cannot have the cooperation of the Armed Forces [of the Philippines] then there’s no point in working for this government,’” she said.

HA?!? What’s happening. —

“Pero ako lang, very appreciative kasi ako sa AFP. Kasi kahit hindi siya perpekto, until now talaga name-maintain niya naman ‘yung kanyang independence as an institution. Hindi hinahayaan na maging instrumento siya.” — #VPLeni.

— katrinastuartsantiago (@radikalchick) November 28, 2021

IBON Foundation Executive Director Sonny Africa said: “Praising military for not supporting Duterte’s violent drug war or for not being openly engaged in partisan politics is a low standard — these are Constitutional obligations (Art. XVI, Sec. 5). But so is respecting people’s rights which the NTF-ELCAC,among others, violates.”

Praising military for not supporting Duterte's violent drug war or for not being openly engaged in partisan politics is a low standard — these are Constitutional obligations (Art. XVI, Sec. 5).

But so is respecting people's rights which the NTF-ELCAC,among others, violates. pic.twitter.com/6ksLyAhS9q

— Sonny Africa (@sonnyafrica) November 28, 2021

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