PUP student leaders twit Duterte Youth solon on 'special treatment remark'

Student leaders of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines on Wednesday went to the office of Duterte party-list Representative Ducielle Cardema to submit their opposition to the proposed termination of the Prudente-Ramos Accord.

The paper by PUP Student Regent Ellenor Bartolome and Student Council President Jonero Dacula was forwarded to the other members of the House and to the Department of National Defense in support of the House and Senate Resolutions opposing the termination of the accords and upholding the academic freedom of all educational institutions.

The Prudente-Ramos accord is the PUP's version of the UP-DND agreement which bans the entry of soldiers and police inside the campus without prior notice to university officials.

Cardema earlier urged the DND to also scrap the agreement between then Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and then PUP president Nemesio Prudente following Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana's unilateral termination of the UP accord.

"Ang tunay na special treatment ay ang bukod tanging partylist na pinahintulutan ng COMELEC na maupo sa kongreso kahit na hindi rehistrado at lampas sa itinakdang edad ng batas," the Office of the PUP Student Regent in a Facebook post.

"Hindi ang 30-year agreement na bunga ng pakikibaka ng mga naunang Iskolar ng Bayan. Hindi ang ng mga kabataang nagnanais lamang ng pagbabago sa lipunan na pinanday ng Sintang Paaralan. We will all fight back!"  it added.

The UP-DND and PUP-DND Accords, Cardema said, create inequality among the more than 400 campuses of various State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines, as it gives "special treatment" to only two universities.

"Itong UP-DND Accord at PUP-DND Accord ay klarong klaro na special treatment na inabuso na, sa tagal ng panahon," she said.

'Kung sa 400 plus campuses ng iba’t ibang SUCs ng bansa wala namang ganyang accord pero peaceful naman, tama lamang tanggalin na ang special treatment na yan na naaabuso rin naman," she added. -Julia Mari Ornedo/NB, GMA News