There is no need to create a task force to end insurgency. Such a task force already exists and in place. It is the entire national government with its three equal branches: the executive, legislative and judiciary, under the commands of the president, speaker/Senate president and chief justice, respectively.
Why is there an insurgency? Simply because the government has failed to “win the hearts and minds of the people”, because the functions of all state entities are laden with corruption.
Corruption has so shackled all those people who work in government that they have lost their grit. If the shackles are removed, government agencies can perform their functions well again, and insurgency will just fade away.
Creating a task force will only duplicate the established agencies of government.
But if what Gen. Carlito Galvez means is to create a task force like “Tokhang” to weed the government of corruption, then it is needed and very timely.
ANTONIO E. SOTELO, retired lieutenant general, antonio.e.sotelo@gmail.com