00:00The legal cooperation cluster of the NTF-LCOC in arresting the three so-called National Democratic Front Consultants was suspended.
00:09This is what Ryan Lesigas reported.
00:13You can't use JASIG as a shield for you to be protected from committing crimes here in the Philippines.
00:22In October this year, the three so-called National Democratic Front Consultants were arrested.
00:28They are Proferio Tuna, Simeon Naugsan, and Wigberto Villarico.
00:35The CPP-NPA-NDF immediately dismissed them because for the terrorist group,
00:40it was illegal and baseless what the government did.
00:44Because they were protected by the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees or JASIG.
00:50But the Legal Cooperation Cluster or LCC of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or NTF-LCOC,
00:56which is fully justified, legal and moral,
00:59the arrest and imprisonment of Tuna, Naugsan, and Villarico
01:04under the exclusive permission of the Office of the Solicitor General Justice Angelita Miranda,
01:09chairperson of the LCC.
01:11The arrest of the three was carried out in accordance with the Standing Warrant of Arrest
01:15initiated by the court for heinous crimes such as kidnapping and murder.
01:19The answer to that question that they were illegally arrested,
01:23a resounding no.
01:25You know why?
01:26The arrest of these individuals, the three individuals who were mentioned early on,
01:30are lawful and were made in accordance with Standing Warrants issued by competent courts.
01:37At the same time, Miranda insisted that JASIG cannot be used as a deterrent
01:43because it has been broken for a long time.
01:45In 2017, former President Rodrigo Duterte broke JASIG after it was lost
01:51due to the betrayal of public trust of the NPA.
01:54Miranda also said that the termination of JASIG is a very critical move
01:59to stop JASIG from being used as a deterrent to criminal impunity.
02:04Even without a cause, you can terminate.
02:07The procedure is that I will give you a notice
02:1030 days, when you receive it, 30 days after that, it's terminated, right?
02:16So, what are they saying that JASIG should not be terminated or that termination is illegal?
02:22Come to read the JASIG.
02:25Moreover, the basis for the termination of this is for the protection of the Filipino people.
02:30In 1995, JASIG was used under the term of former President Fidel Ramos
02:36through the Philippines and the NDF.
02:40From here in Campo Aguinaldo, Ryan Lisigues for Pambansang TV in the new Philippines.
