Published on: March 29, 2022
By DAR-8
TACLOBAN CITY -- Employees of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) shout “Mission accomplished!” after President Rodrigo Duterte finally handed the Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOAs) to the former rebels on March 17, in support to the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).
DAR Eastern Visayas regional director Robert Anthony Yu disclosed that 446 individual CLOA covering 89 hectares of land at Sitio Limite, Brgy. Daja Daku in San Isidro, Leyte, were handed by the chief executive to the 446 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) during the inauguration of the new Leyte Provincial Capitol in Palo, Leyte.
Two hundred fifty-eight of the 446 ARBs are former rebels, while 188 are actual farmers, Yu added.
The President, on January 23, 2020, during his visit to the remote San Isidro town for the turnover of various government assistance to former rebels, ordered former DAR Secretary, John Castriciones, to provide the former rebels farmlands for them to to till, under the ComprehensiveAgrarian Reform Program (CARP) where they can start their livelihood.
One year and eight months after, a collective CLOA covering 91.6 hectares was generated and registered at the Registry of Deeds.Thereafter on March 19, this year, the collective CLOA was parcelized into individual CLOAs, which were then distributed by the President on March 17.
During the same occasion, 326 more CLOAs with a combined area of 487.7 hectares were distributed by the President to the representatives of ARBs from other Leyte towns, as well as from the provinces of Northern Samar, Samar and Southern Leyte.
Agrarian Reform Secretary Bernie Cruz, who assisted the President in the distribution of of land titles, lauded the DAR Leyte employees for a job well done.
Cruz dropped by the DAR Leyte Provincial Office the day before the distribution, to check on the titles.
(JALS/DAR-8)
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