Duterte, Uson not NPA targets for assassination – Joma Sison

Former Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson and President Rodrigo Duterte (File photos from the Philippine Daily Inquirer)

LUCENA CITY — Neither President Rodrigo Duterte nor former Presidential Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson are targets for assassination by the New People’s Army (NPA), according to Jose Maria “Joma” Sison, the exiled founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

In a statement posted on Facebook, Sison said Uson was fantasizing her fear that the NPA was out to kill her.

“Such a verbal stunt or fantasy of Mocha will not gain her a seat in the Senate but a hand wave of dismissal or a passing chuckle at a low-kind of absurdity,” Sison said.

Sison made the remark after Uson declared that if ever she would suddenly killed there would no one to blame but the NPA.

The NPA is the CPP’s armed wing.

According to Uson, who has declared that she would run in the 2019 elections, she doesn’t want security for herself.

But her manager, who is also her chief of staff, told Uson that she would need personal security because she was already going against the NPA.

“Kaya ‘pag ako namatay, kilala niyo na kung sino. NPA nagpapatay sa akin,” Uson said.

[So if I die, you know who had me killed. It’s the NPA.]

Jose Maria Sison, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (File photo from the Philippine Daily Inquirer)

Sison retorted: “After being used up and thrown away as rubbish by her master Duterte, Mocha Uson wants to raise her political stock at the expense of the CPP and NPA which she falsely accuses of wanting to kill her.

Sison said there was “absolutely no reason” for the CPP and NPA “even to wish the untimely death of Mocha.”

“She is at best allowed to expose herself as an excrescence, the mere vomit of an abominable monster like Duterte,” Sison said.

He added: “She may not be as bad as Duterte in terms of outright violence against the poor, but she has been responsible for a lot of fake news and the vulgarity of the regime.”

Meanwhile, Sison also assured the President that the NPA would not target him for assassination.

“Even the abominable monster Duterte, whom many people want to get rid of because of the soaring prices of food and other basic goods, the mass murder of people in urban slums and countryside and the rampant corruption, has been assured by the CPP and NPA that they wish to keep him alive so that he will be able to pay for his crimes in prison,” Sison said.

Sison also criticized Duterte’s declaration on Tuesday that he diagnostic test showed he was free from cancer.

“Duterte may or not have cancer. But he is certainly a cancerous growth on the Philippine ruling system,” Sison said.

Sison likened Duterte to “an abominable monster to the Filipino people” who are suffering the consequences of his policies and actions. /atm