ECONOMISTS and government officials alike warned Wednesday against a campaign to get overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to stop sending money home for a week to protest the arrest and extradition of former president Rodrigo Duterte, saying this would just hurt their families.

In a Facebook post, IBON Foundation Executive Director Sonny Africa said Duterte supporters who withhold remittances for a week are only hurting their own families.

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