The 159 farmer claimants under the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Inc., successfully took over the lands they lost almost seven years ago on Thursday.
For the second time, agrarian reform beneficiaries here were stopped by company guards who refused to obey the Writ of Installation ordered by Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano.
After almost seven years, 159 agrarian reform beneficiaries here are set to manage their own land in anticipation of the government’s installation order to seize a 145-hectare banana plantation.
A militant and a local human rights group here scored a police officer who ordered the bloody dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan City last year, now appointed as Davao’s top police officer.
Weeks after the government’s Freedom of Information portal was launched, an anti-Marcos group said it would invoke FOI to request the pertinent documents that approved the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes’ Cemetery.