City folks charge NCIP for illegal CALT issuance
by Press Release
The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples was
lambas-ted for issuing a Certificate of Ancestral Land Title (CALT) to
Ibalois from Koronodal, South Cotabato, SOCCSARGEN who were never in
possession of a 7.2-hectare property in Irisan.
A complaint filed with the Regional Trial Court of Baguio City said the NCIP has given the go signal to sell the property as a housing subdivision without the necessary permits from the Housing Land Use and Regulatory Board and the City Building and Architectural Office.
“It is so dreadful that the NCIP is a government agency tasked to recognize ancestral claims, and award these lands to those who are deserving, yet, the NCIP, in the instant case, failed its mandate, and worst, has perpetrated fraud and continues perpetrate fraud in dispossessing the genuine owners of the land through its inefficient and sloppy acts,” the complaint reads.
Filed by Elmo Sano Sr., Heirs of Arceso Copero and Julia Biase, the complaint said NCIP was faulted for awarding the property to the Heirs of Anthony Arciso, even if they were never in possession of the property.
The NCIP, Sano said, ignored their vast improvements in the area, and depended on an old survey plan. The NCIP, through Gladys Lasdacan, then had this survey plan reconstructed, even if this was non-existent in the files of the Land Registration Authority.
An earlier case was filed protesting the issuance of the CALT to the South Cotabato residents, but NCIP slept on it for six long years. Then without conducting any hearings, the NCIP issued a resolution maintaining the CALT, even while the protest was pending. Sano added that his neighbors asked NCIP to issue a TRO in 2007 to stop Bi-Centennial Development Inc. from bulldozing their vegetable gardens but the NCIP failed to act on their request and their vegetable gardens were reduced to rubble.
Sano, quoting one of the authors of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act, added that the law was passed to rectify the previous sins in oppressing indigenous people/indigenous cultural communities. “The NCIP, however, which is supposed to stop this insidious conspiracy, continues to be an indispensable party to this insidious conspiracy against ICCs/ IPs,” the complainants said.
Besides requesting that the CALT be cancelled, Sano also requested for the cancellation of the Joint Venture Agreement which aims to turn the agricultural property into a subdivision as the IPRA prohibits the selling of ancestral lands. The residents intend to file criminal and administrative charges against the NCIP executives for fraudulently issuing the CALT with the Ombudsman next week.
See Full Article Here:
http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/city.asp?mode=%20archives/2010/october/10-24-2010/city5.txt
A complaint filed with the Regional Trial Court of Baguio City said the NCIP has given the go signal to sell the property as a housing subdivision without the necessary permits from the Housing Land Use and Regulatory Board and the City Building and Architectural Office.
“It is so dreadful that the NCIP is a government agency tasked to recognize ancestral claims, and award these lands to those who are deserving, yet, the NCIP, in the instant case, failed its mandate, and worst, has perpetrated fraud and continues perpetrate fraud in dispossessing the genuine owners of the land through its inefficient and sloppy acts,” the complaint reads.
Filed by Elmo Sano Sr., Heirs of Arceso Copero and Julia Biase, the complaint said NCIP was faulted for awarding the property to the Heirs of Anthony Arciso, even if they were never in possession of the property.
The NCIP, Sano said, ignored their vast improvements in the area, and depended on an old survey plan. The NCIP, through Gladys Lasdacan, then had this survey plan reconstructed, even if this was non-existent in the files of the Land Registration Authority.
An earlier case was filed protesting the issuance of the CALT to the South Cotabato residents, but NCIP slept on it for six long years. Then without conducting any hearings, the NCIP issued a resolution maintaining the CALT, even while the protest was pending. Sano added that his neighbors asked NCIP to issue a TRO in 2007 to stop Bi-Centennial Development Inc. from bulldozing their vegetable gardens but the NCIP failed to act on their request and their vegetable gardens were reduced to rubble.
Sano, quoting one of the authors of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act, added that the law was passed to rectify the previous sins in oppressing indigenous people/indigenous cultural communities. “The NCIP, however, which is supposed to stop this insidious conspiracy, continues to be an indispensable party to this insidious conspiracy against ICCs/ IPs,” the complainants said.
Besides requesting that the CALT be cancelled, Sano also requested for the cancellation of the Joint Venture Agreement which aims to turn the agricultural property into a subdivision as the IPRA prohibits the selling of ancestral lands. The residents intend to file criminal and administrative charges against the NCIP executives for fraudulently issuing the CALT with the Ombudsman next week.
See Full Article Here:
http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/city.asp?mode=%20archives/2010/october/10-24-2010/city5.txt
Note:
"In this CALT, the Mountain House Baguio Subdivision were being build and sold with non-IPs.
The License to Sell was suspended because of its nature and a Moratorium was issued for LTS application of ancestral land."
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