Badoy hit with another complaint at Ombudsman for red-tagging Robredo
FILE PHOTO: NTF-Elcac spokesperson Lorraine Marie Badoy. INQUIRER.net
MANILA, Philippines — Another complaint has been lodged against National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) spokesperson Lorraine Badoy for red-tagging Vice President Leni Robredo.
Groups that include Makabayan, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Amihan National Federation of Peasant Women, and fishers’ group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas filed a complaint against Badoy before the Office of the Ombudsman on Wednesday.
They said they were disturbed by Badoy’s posts, which were presented as NTF-Elcac’s official statements, on March 14 and March 21 on Facebook.
“We were appalled and deeply disturbed on how Undersecretary Badoy-Partosa uses the resources of the government not only to wantonly red-tag, maliciously attack, and malign progressive individuals and groups but how she brazenly and publicly associates and links the presidential campaign of Vice President Maria Leonor S. Gerona-Robredo with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), among others,” the groups stated in their complaint.
Badoy, through a post on the NTF-Elcac Facebook page on March 14, told Robredo to stop denying alliance with communist insurgents.
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Article continues after this advertisementIn another post on the NTF-Elcac Facebook page on March 21, Badoy alleged that Robredo earned the endorsement of progressive groups like Kabataan, Alliance of Concerned Teachers, Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, and Gabriela after a series of negotiations with the CPP, New People’s Army, and National Democratic Front.
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Prior to this complaint filed Wednesday, three separate complaints have been lodged against Badoy by 26 people before the Ombudsman over red-tagging, violation of the antigraft law, and the code of conduct for public officials.
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Badoy, however, said she is unfazed by these complaints and even described them as “foolishness” and “personally interesting.”
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