Pinol won’t pay NPA for permit to campaign

 Pinol won’t pay NPA for permit to campaign

Published  at VERA Files on April 1, 2010
 By MALU CADELINA-MANAR
MindaNews

KIDAPAWAN CITY.– North Cotabato vice-governor Emmanuel Pinol will not give in to the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) demand for payment of a “permit-to-campaign” and “permit to win” despite the latter’s declaration it would continue to launch attacks in Pinol’s stronghold. Pinol said that since he started campaigning for a government post in North Cotabato in 1995 as mayor of M’lang town, he has not given in to the demands of the NPA to pay them any permit-to-campaign and permit-to-win.

“Sukad-sukad, I have never given any amount to NPA para makapangampanya. Wala ko gatuo nga ang usa ka opisyal sa gubyerno dapat magbayad sa rebelde (Ever since, I have never given any amount to NPA so I could campaign. I don’t believe that an official of the government should pay the rebels)”, Pinol said in a radio interview. This as he hit some candidates in North Cotabato for allegedly meeting the rebels sometime last month in a village in Makilala town, also in North Cotabato....MORE