The Barangay Development Program (BDP) of the National Task Force (NTF)-Elcac is a moneypit of corruption. To secure the loyalty of the military, Marcos plans to allot ₱10 billion more for the corrupt BDP, large amounts of which end up in the pockets of corrupt military officers and bureaucrats. This is a brazen affront to the Filipino people amid worsening socioeconomic crisis and widespread hardships and poverty.

For five years now, the BDP has served as a milking cow for the NTF-Elcac. Its projects purportedly aim to improve the lives of people in order to draw them away from the revolutionary movement. However, most of these are white elephant projects, many of which are unaudited (according to the Commission on Audit).

In Samar, residents complain of incomplete road projects that have been abandoned by the NTF-Elcac. There are also substandard “farm-to-market” roads in Davao, a number of which are already laid to waste after recent storms. In some areas in Cagayan province, promises of “development” were reduced into dole outs of a few cans of sardines and a few kilos of rice.

People in villages occupied by the NTF-Elcac through the AFP suffer worse impoverishment and oppression, especially in those areas where they have been dispossessed of their land by mining companies and their rights suppressed by the military.

The broad masses of the Filipino people, especially peasants and indigenous people, workers and urban poor, demand the dismantling of the NTF-Elcac and its BDP which are used to carry out political repression and suppress their resistance.