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Caraga lumads demand ouster of NCIP head

January 29, 2010

 BEN SERRANO, GMANews.TV

BUTUAN CITY - Members and officials of the Caraga Regional Tribal Consultative Assembly (CRTCA) will hold “peaceful” lightning protest rallies at the regional office of the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) until Friday next week to demand, among others, the ouster of its regional director.

In an interview with GMANews.TV at the picket line, CRTCA regional chairman Datu Ebanta Evangelisto Morada, Jr. said the protest rallies, which began Tuesday, will last until February 5.

In their four-page demand, the indigenous people asked the Caraga regional offices of the NCIP and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to investigate and conduct ocular inspections of the alleged illegal logging and mining activities in Mount Agutayan, Calamba; in Brgy. Puting Bato in Cabadbaran City in Agusan del Norte; in Brgy. Padiay in Sibagat town, Agusan del Sur; and in Kitcharao town, Agusan del Norte.

Datu Ampo of Surigao del Sur demanded a congressional inquiry and the cancellation of Presidential Proclamation No. 1747, which declared watershed areas inside their ancestral domains in the towns of Carrascal, Cantilan, Madrid, in Surigao del Sur province and in Jabonga, Santiago and Cabadbaran towns in Agusan del Norte.

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