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Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Pay families up for relocation, Naga asks Apo Cement Corp.
By Jeanette P. Malinao
THE Naga Municipal Government is appealing to the management of Apo Cement Corp. to give compensation to 103 families residing within its mining site who face relocation.
Naga’s local officials were informed that Apo Cement has filed cases before the Municipal Trial Court of Naga to eject the families.
The officials, in a resolution signed by Mayor Ferdinand Chiong and received by the Cebu Provincial Board, also said they learned that Apo Cement “is not willing” to give relocation compensation to the affected residents.
This fact has “dismayed” the town’s leaders, who made known their “sentiments” and expressed an “appeal” to the Apo Cement management through the legislation.
The Municipal Council also pointed out that the Apo Cement’s Life Environmental Protection and Enhancement Program provides that funds must be reserved for the relocation compensation of affected residents within the mine area.
Section 107 of the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 also states that the “surface owner and occupant shall properly and justly be compensated as a consequence of mining operations.”
(September 30, 2003 issue)
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