A member of the MILF Central Committee has called on prospective foreign investors on plantation economy especially on palm oil to go slowly and be extra cautious as they might contribute unwittingly to the fast dispossession of ordinary people of their landholdings in the proposed Bangsamoro territory.
“Don’t rush up,” Sheikh Mohammad Muntassir, head of the Da’wah Department of the MILF, advised these foreign investors.
“Haste makes waste,” he added.
Reports reaching the MILF said that there has been a massive acquisition of lands by powerful individuals especially in Maguindanao, who offered high prices for lands acquired by the government under the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) program called “Voluntary Offer to Sale” or VOS, which under the law are owned by tenants-beneficiaries.
He asked prospective investors to investigate first the status of the lands not just with the one dealing with them but also with the concerned agencies of government particularly the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
He also said that the MILF could offer some advises, saying that the MILF knows the status of the landholding in the Bangsamoro.
He disclosed that most of the internal conflicts in Moro society are due to conflicting land claims.
He also called on the Aquino administration to check on this anomalous purchases of lands covered by the agrarian reform program of government, saying if this development does not stop there would be serious land problem in the Bangsamoro in the very near future.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1301-milf-calls-on-foreign-investors-on-plantation-economy-to-go-slowly-and-cautiously
“Haste makes waste,” he added.
Reports reaching the MILF said that there has been a massive acquisition of lands by powerful individuals especially in Maguindanao, who offered high prices for lands acquired by the government under the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) program called “Voluntary Offer to Sale” or VOS, which under the law are owned by tenants-beneficiaries.
He asked prospective investors to investigate first the status of the lands not just with the one dealing with them but also with the concerned agencies of government particularly the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
He also said that the MILF could offer some advises, saying that the MILF knows the status of the landholding in the Bangsamoro.
He disclosed that most of the internal conflicts in Moro society are due to conflicting land claims.
He also called on the Aquino administration to check on this anomalous purchases of lands covered by the agrarian reform program of government, saying if this development does not stop there would be serious land problem in the Bangsamoro in the very near future.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1301-milf-calls-on-foreign-investors-on-plantation-economy-to-go-slowly-and-cautiously
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