By Juan Escandor Jr.
Southern Luzon Bureau
Posted date: November 20, 2008
MANILA, Philippines – At 4 a.m. Tuesday, the second day of their 21-day or 444-kilometer walk to Malacañang that started Monday in Bula town in Camarines Sur, 51 farmers and their supporters left Naga City to press for a reversal of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita’s decision in April that dispossessed them of their land.
Pobleo Clavero, 82, the oldest among the marchers, who has been tilling the land since 1939, said he hoped he could make it to Malacañang because this could be his last exercise of his right to seek justice.
Ermita’s decision on April 16 set aside the agrarian reform coverage of 123 hectares of the Fajardo Estate in Sitio Banasi, Barangay Pawili.
The estate is being tilled by 57 farmer-beneficiaries earlier awarded farm lots through Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CLOA) titled at the Registry of Deeds of Camarines Sur.
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