Rehabilitation czar Panfilo Lacson on Monday said a local politician in Samar-Leyte area is recuiting people belonging to militant groups, including the New People’s Army and the Communist Party of the Philippines, and sends them to Manila to stage rallies against  programs he is implementing.

“We have received information from intelligence people of the national police and the Armed Forces that leftists individuals are being transported from Yolanda-stricken areas to Manila,” Lacson told a forum in Manila, referring to the super typhoon that hit Eastern Visayas last year.

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