Sumilao -farmers “march for land” from Bukidnon to Malaybalay-

[horhe1286]

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this is a walk for their rights..

The segment covered around 6 kilometers — a very short distance compared to the 1100 kilometers or so covered by the group, which started from Sumilao, Bukidnon. (It did not seem short)

"The story of the lumad-farmers of Sumilao, Bukidnon is a reflection of the state of agrarian reform in our country. It demonstrates how little our commitment is to agrarian reform justice," Banzuela said.
Ten years ago, Sumilao farmers rose to national prominence after they staged a 28-day hunger strike in Quezon and Cagayan de Oro cities to dramatize their demand to get back 144 hectares of their ancestral land.
The ancestral land, around 243 hectares of flat agricultural land, used to be the seat of the Higaonon tribal leadership until a big landowner came in the 1930s and drove them away.
Ownership of the land which is bound by Mt. Sayawan and Mt. Palaopao, changed several times through the years until it was divided into two lots. One lot, around 99 hectares, went to Salvador Carlos, a Manila businessman and Norberto Quisumbing(the grandfather of louigie quisumbing and his dictators), owner of the Cebu-based Yamaha Norkis manufacturing.
Carlos took pity on the Sumilao farmers and before he died, declared in his will that 66 hectares be given back to them through the Department of Agrarian Reform.
There, on that 66-hectare land, the farmers set up houses and solar dryers for their corn.
Quisumbing, on the other hand, took another course. The businessman leased the land to Del Monte Philippines for ten years until 1988 when DAR awarded the 144 hectares to the Sumilao farmers under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
This pitted the Sumilao farmers with Quisumbing who opposed the DAR initiative by converting the agricultural land into industrial use.
Quisumbing proposed the establishment of a school , a cultural center, museum, golf course, a sports complex, a hotel and industrial park across the 144-hectare land.
Banzuela said this was "highly irregular" and violated the law on conversion.
He said Quisumbing was able to convert the land after the local governments of Sumilao and Bukidnon passed resolutions allowing the conversion. It was approved by then Executive Secretary Ruben Torres.
" LGUs have no power of conversion under the law as the same belongs to the DAR Secretary," Banzuela said.
As public sympathy grew for the farmers, former President Fidel Ramos issued the "win-win Resolution" giving 100 hectares to the Sumilao farmers and the remaining 44 hectares to Quisumbing.
Quisumbing questioned the presidential order and won the case before the Supreme Court.
In 2002, Quisumbing sold the land to San Miguel Foods Inc. owned by businessman and former Marcos ally Danding Cojuangco who is planning to construct a piggery farm.
Banzuela said Sumilao farmers are questioning the sale.

guys:

this was my no. concerns!!!!!! let their voices be heard!!!! farmers from naga city are marching for the sake of their land and the owners especially the father of louigie are the one who dictates everything from his son and dont have any care at all...

"if louigie will win as a congressman in 6th district..does his voice too be heard..or he will just let dictators dictates him from what to do...or maybe he will just or act like a puppet??...


this is a serious case..so please guys think wisely and criticize wisely!!!!!..were talking about to our future and to the future of our children....
-a sad facts-

[horhe1286]

...guys dili nato padagon ang mga engon ani nga kinaiya..especially with mr. louigie...he cant act on his own..nd besides his platform is nonsense??...magpa race ug mga iro??...unsa nalng kadilikado iya gibuhat??...hahaheeeeee.....it was all nonsense...

[Clara Ignashia]

This happened long ago. Hope it'll not happen again... If we have leaders that are not sensitive to the citizen's needs, how then can they be not ignorant to their people? If we have leaders that moves with the flow of the wind in the high society, they can never become generous and they might become greedy to the things that other people that wanted it most as mush as it is to themselves. If we have leaders like this again, and again, then how can the lives of our farmers, fishermen, or our agricultural workers in the country improve? When people in the positions will treat them like pests and degrade their dignity, when the people they looked down were the people that uses all their energy for the day to bring food to the whole country?... If we have leaders like this again and again, then poor people will become poorer and poorer, and rich people will become richer and richer, and we can never see an improving economy.

[Clara Ignashia]

We cannot judge directly Mr. Louigie Quisimbing if he is like his father or will he follow his father's footsteps in handling such responsibility and failed. But seeing his works and reading such reviews about him, this makes clear to the people that we just can't put our trust easily unto him. And we should look for candidates that is more qualified in our opinion, and whom we think that will not follow and be like a puppet to somebody, but someone that has his own feet to the ground, freely to move yet moving along the wind with his responsibilities on his hands.

[horhe1286]

..you have a point..but we shall not go for louigie..ok??..i hate him and i hate that they are just ignoring the needs of the farmers...

[yacky2006]

kinsa mana si Louigie Quisimbing?

Mao nay papa ni Luigi?

[race.boi]

Si Louigie Quisimbing us Luigi, mao rana sila.. heheheh

Everything has said clearly, theres nothing we can do but to say what we feel...

I believe through this many people will realized that Louigie Quisimbing is not a real public servant..

[yacky2006]

Si Louigie Quisimbing us Luigi, mao rana sila.. heheheh

Everything has said clearly, theres nothing we can do but to say what we feel...

I believe through this many people will realized that Louigie Quisimbing is not a real public servant..

Mao ba correction lang.

I think si Luigi Q apo mana ni Norberto Q dili anak.

sa first post man gud ni ingon nga anak.

[race.boi]

Cge kuya... heheheheh.. Sori

[horhe1286]

..i think anak xa..only son lng xa..mao sad na sko source..hmpmmmmmmmh..naglibog nko..heheh