SAN PEDRO CITY — A high school in Los Baños town in Laguna province where National Youth Commission (NYC) chair Ronald Cardema graduated took down a tarpaulin showing him with President Duterte, amid the youth leader’s controversial proposal to withdraw support for government scholars joining antigovernment protests. Cardema graduated from Maquiling School Inc. (MSI), a nonstock and nonprofit institution inside the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) campus, in 2002. ADVERTISEMENTThe tarpaulin carried messages congratulating Cardema, a former head of the Duterte Youth, for his appointment to the NYC in August 2018. It showed a photo of him flanked by Duterte and former Special Assistant to the President Bong Go. It was taken down only on Thursday, the same day a group of MSI alumni wrote the school to have the tarpaulin removed.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 22, 2019 21:29 UTC