NCIP appeals tribal leaders in Pagadian City to help them promote, preserve and protect their IPs right

 
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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (Nov 13, 2014-MPF News) --- The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) appealed to the tribal Leaders in Pagadian City and Zamboanga del Sur to help them promote, preserve and protect the Indigenous Peoples Right (IPs).

NCIP Provincial Legal office Atty. Joel Duhaylungsod said Thursday that he appealed to some Tribal Leaders for their unity and help the NCIP in promotion, preservation and protection of IPs rights during the meeting conducted by the newly organized Pagadian City IP Tribal Association headed by Marcelino Alviola held in Barangay Deborok Tuesday.

Atty. Duhaylungosd together with the NCIP Provincial Director Mercilyn B. Hatad was invited by the said organization during their Council Elders and Leaders assembly to help them formulate the local guidelines for the selection of IP Mandatory Representative in the Legislative Council of Pagadian City.

Duhaylungsod said he had explained to them that the local guidelines should be guided by the national guidelines policy based by the respective customary laws of the tribal in the locality and there was already existing local guidelines approved by the Tribal Leaders and the Council of the Elders of the Sebanen Tribe holders of Ancestral Domain in Pagadian City last 2009 recognized by NCIP.

The existing local guidelines were based in the local customary laws that were incorporated in the ancestral domain claim submitted by tribal leaders to the NCIP, Duhaylungsod said.

The list of the names of Tribal Leaders submitted to the office of the NCIP was also validated to determined their blood line and authenticity as a Tribal Leader, the NCIP Legal Officer said.

Duhaylungsod also explained that that the existing local guidelines was the bases of selecting Temuay Langhap Rio Olimpio A. Lingating as the IPMR in Pagadian City and the NCIP regional office had issued Certificate of Affirmation (COA) to Lingating and recommended to the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) for the issuance of the Certificate of Recognition (COR) as selected IPM in Pagadian City.

He also said that the local guidelines will only be amended after the term of IPMR Lingating during the general assembly of the tribal leaders.

IPMR Lingating can be removed and replaced anytime if the majority of the Tribal Leaders will convene the general assemble and select any members of the tribal leaders to replace him, he added.

The recall and removal of IPMR Lingating was already resolved after the legal process and the NCIP National office had already come out with the decision for the reinstatement of Lingating as IPMR in Pagadian City and the directives was already forwarded to the Local Government of Pagadian City on November 5 for their immediate action, Duhaylungsod disclosed.   

“The decision of having IPMR in Pagadian City is coming from each tribal leader in the locality and not from the NCIP. So please let us be united for the interest of the IPs in Pagadian City and Zamboanga del Sur and please help us in the NCIP as the right agency to promote, preserve and protect the rights of the IPs,” NCIP Legal Officer said.