DILG downplays militarization on campuses 'figment of imagination'

THE Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) on Wednesday branded allegations of “militarization” in schools a "figment of the imagination gone overdrive" and “classic communist propaganda,” which used the politics of fear to portray government as a repressive monster to earn political pogi points from students in order to ‘arouse, organize, mobilize’ the youth sector,” DILG Undersecretary and spokesman Jonathan Malaya said in a press statement.

Malaya said there was nothing wrong with student activism and in fact, all the Department wanted to address was Communist recruitment in schools.