Revocation Tadian lot titles pushed

By Glo Abaeo Tuazon

TADIAN, Mountain Province – The Regional Development Council urged the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources to immediately cancel Certificates of Titles of lots located at barangays Bellang and Masca, Sayapot, Dacudac here specifically titles of Nelson Palid, Agosto Palcacion, Peter Ngawa among others.

The RDC said the titles were issued despite the fact that the lands were covered by the watershed protected area.

In 2008 the RDC created a team to deal with the matter. A consultation among affected folk was conducted on July 22, 2008 and a memorandum of agreement was made to declare the area as Dacudac-Balili Watershed.

A joint resolution of the two mentioned barangays was agreed upon to this effect. In said consultation it was also established that lots of Palid and Palcasio were outside alienable and disposable lands based on existing land classification maps thus meriting cancellation of said titles.

In Dec, 3, 2008, the investigative report and draft complaint were submitted to the Office of the Solicitor General.

The RDC, in Resolution CAR-07 s.2008, said cultivation of these lands as assessed has caused the pollution of the water source of the community aside from the fact that the status of the lands in question were not within the purview of the A&D zone of the public domain.

The RDC said these reasons among others were the bases why these were in question.

With the joint RDC-Regional Peace and Order Council meet recently in Bontoc, the council agreed these matters have to be taken with greater caution and that the courts and DENR have better jurisdiction on the matters of its legality.