QUEZON City, Philippines – Malacañang guaranteed that the arrest of the National Democratic Front consultants will go through the proper process.
Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said that it will be up to the Department of Justice to issue new arrest warrants against the NDF consultants who were only temporarily freed due to the safe conduct pass given to them by the government.
“As informed by Office of the Executive Secretary, the rearrest order of the members of the NDF panel previously under detention and provisionally released to join the peace talks will be issued by the courts,” Abella said.
“Basically, this is now under the jurisdiction of the courts… The DOJ will be the one to invoke the court to cancel [their] bail,” he added.
Abella explained that the arrest of the NDF consultants is based on the order of President Rodrigo Duterte cancelling the peace talks with the communist rebels.
President Duterte on Friday, February 3 has announced the lifting of the unilateral ceasefire with the CPP/NPA/NDF and ordered the arrest of its members, including those who were involved in the peace negotiations with the government.
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