Civil society leader urges probe on CARP in Negros

By Dolly Yasa

 

BACOLOD City – A civil society group here is asking House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco to investigate the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in Negros Occidental.

Task Force Kasanag founder and national commander John Chiong told Daily Guardian Friday that more than 1,000 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) sought their help.

Chiong said the ARBs all over the province claimed that while they have their certificates of land ownership awards (CLOA), they are not in actual possession of their lands.

In his letter to Velasco, Chiong said “indeed your election has given hope to the marginalized sector especially the farmers in general and the agrarian reform beneficiaries in particular that their voices will also be heard and their concerns will also be given due attention.”

“It is in this light that the Task Force Kasanag, a civil society organization with chapters all over the country and with members from the cross section of the community, is asking for your intervention to investigate, if need be, the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program of the government here in the province of Negros Occidental.”