Claim: Joma Sison earned 6 Billion Pesos yearly as CPP Founder
Rating: FALSE
THE FACTS: Pro-Marcos vlogger Coach Jarret claims in his Youtube video that Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairperson Jose Maria “Joma” Sison had been earning P6 billion per year from the party and its military component, the New People’s Army.
At the 21:01 mark of the video he says:
Kasi ayaw niya (Sison) naman kasi talaga ng peace, sa totoo lang. Ang laki-laki ng kinikita niya taon-taon sa mga criminal activities niya… six billion pesos a year. Ba’t mo isusuko ‘yun, ‘di ba? Ayaw niya kasi talagang gawin ‘yun (Because he [Sison] doesn’t really want peace, to be honest. He earns tons of money annually from his criminal activities… six billion pesos a year. Why would you give that up, right? He doesn’t really want to do that).
As of this writing, the YouTube stream had 45K views and 751 comments. Coach Jarret has almost 200,000 followers on YouTube.
This is False even as CPP has never disclosed its amount of funds and resources.
The CPP’s operations are supported “by membership fees and monthly dues, by productive undertakings of the Party, by special assessments, by a share in the income, properties, and inheritance of members, and by unconditional contributions and fundraising campaigns,” according to Section 2, Article XI of the CPP’s Constitution.
And even if the ludicrous statement is true, why would the NPA be described by former President Duterte, for example, as “dwindling ragtag bandits robbing there, killing there for money or for whatever without any direction or any ideology at all (https://www.ptvnews.ph/duterte-recognizes-role-of…/).”
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. also said to the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ fight against the insurgents: “Through your efforts, along with other law enforcement authorities and government agencies, we now see a significant decline in their numbers, and that you have helped in to pave the way for development to foster and for communities to live in peace.”
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) funds which Duterte created and Marcos continued now total P10 billion a year. That would mean Sison’s funds is 7.2 times more than the NTF-ELCAC piggybank.
The baseless accusation was made a day after Sison died in a hospital in Utrecht, Netherlands. He was 83.
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