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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga
del Sur (Oct. 15, 2014-MPF News) --- The SUbanen Tribal Leaders in Pagadian
City through its PHIGAPASAN Tribal Association Lison Valley Ancestral Domain,
Lison Valley, Pagadian City had passed a resolution respecting the National
Commission of Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) Fact Finding Team reports, assessment
and evaluation, Tribal Leader said.
Tribal Association
Chairman David S. Bawan said Tuesday they had passed and approved a resolution
respecting the Fact Finding decision and recommendations to the NCIP
Commissioner.
The resolution also
requested the Regional Office-9 of NCIP that after the decision made by the
Fact Finding Team they will not entertain anymore the same petition from any
un-authorized group so that the Subanen Tribe can continue their development not
only in the IPs Mandatory Representative issues but also to some activities and
development of the Subanen People within their ancestral domain.
“We are hoping and
praying that the IPMR issue in Pagadian City will be resolved by the concerned
government agencies following the implementation of the Indigenous Peoples
Right Act (IPRA Law) or R.A.8371 especially we are celebrating in the spirit of
IPs month October,” Bawan added.
It was recalled that the
NCIP through the Regional Office organized the “fact-finding-team” to go
through an in-depth investigation relative to the submitted petition to recall
the IPMR.
Series of out and on
site interviews have been conducted by the team with those who have signed the
petition. The actual interviews were able to surface individual
accounts/reasons why the concern tribal leaders signed the petition to recall.
With the outcome of
the fact finding team investigation, the team submitted their reports
recommending more or less the re-instatement
of Timuay Langhap Rio Olimpio A. Lingating as the IP Mandatory Representative
in the City Council of Pagadian.
The NCIP Regional
Executive Director Timuay Woy Lim P. Wong issued his evaluation of the fact
finding report stating among others his recommendation based on the report for
the re-instatement of Timuay Lingating. A
specific comment made by the said evaluation provides that the petition for
recall executed by the alleged tribal leaders cannot be given weight and
therefore declared insufficient ground to recall the IPMR. (By JONG
CADION)
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