NAGA CITY: Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) chief, Lt. Gen. Ferdinand Quidilla urged the country’s lawmakers to walk an extra mile to see to the needs of the people and other socio-economic problems where basic and regular services do not reach the countryside.

Quidilla said there are places in the country where the primary causes of insurgency are ignorance, poverty for lack of services and other socio-economic services which are being exploited by the Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) to agitate the masses and eventually recruit new members among them.

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