MGB deputize Pagadian City Chief of Police in the implementation of CDO

 

Pagadian City Police Chief Supt. Glenn M. Dulawan

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur (July1, 2015-PNA) – The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) deputized the Pagadian City Police Chief Supt. Glenn M. Dulawan to implement Environmental Laws within his area of responsibilities.

Supt Dulawan was deputized by MGB before the implementation last Friday of Cease and Desists Order (CDO) jointly signed by the MGB and the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) against mining operations within the Indigenous Peoples (IP) ancestral domain areas in this city and province.

Dulawan provided police security escort from the Provincial Public Safety Company and city police to the MGB and NCIP personnel to the mining sited in the stoppage and closure of 22 holes of illegal mining operations conducted by the small scale mining operators.

Dulawan expressed his support and assured the full implementation of the CDO against illegal mining operations in Barangays Deborok and Lourdes in this city.

Alfredo Relampagos, MGB OIC-regional director, and Woy Lim Wong, NCIP regional director, jointly issued the CDO dated June 5 following complaints filed by the PSGT against massive intrusion by mining groups in their ancestral domain.

(Photos by PERD LIBOR)

The investigation disclosed that the said the mining operations within the IPs ancestral domain are illegal and in violation of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) and the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 since there was no Free and Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) given by the IP-CADT holders.

The Provincial Mineral Regulatory Board (PMRB) also did not issue permit to any individual to conduct mining operations within the ancestral domain of the IPs.  

Timuay Langhap Rio Olimpio Lingating, head of the Subanen tribes said Monday that the group known as the Pikumpungan Subanen Gataw Tebed, Inc. (PSGT), which is a holder of a Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT) expressed their heartfelt gratitude to the MGB, NCIP and city police for taking the appropriate action putting a stop on all mining operations within their ancestral domain areas in this province. (By JONG CADION)