QC adopts program for rebel returnees

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By IZA IGLESIAS 8:51 pm

Mayor Herbert Bautista of Quezon City has signed an executive order to implement the city’s Comprehensive Local Integration Program (CLIP) that will encourage rebels in the city to return to the folds of law. During a meeting with members of the peace and order council at Camp Karingal, Quezon City, Department of the Interior and Local Government-QC Field Office head Director Juan Jovian Ingeniero revealed that a workshop for the implementation of CLIP is underway. The mayor’s executive order will adopt CLIP, a program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, for rebel returnees. With that, Quezon City will become the latest city in Metro Manila to adopt CLIP.