THE Land Registration Authority (LRA) in Bacolod City has insufficient personnel, causing delays in the delivery of services to clients at its office located at the ground floor of the Hall of Justice.
One client said it took her three days to complete the payment of request for the release of mortgage for an encumbered land.
Cristy Brillantes, agency site leader assigned at the LRA Bacolod, said only seven employees are assigned at the office, and they are “borrowing” personnel, particularly a cashier, from the LRA Provincial Office.
Brillantes said that since President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office last year, they was no hiring to fill the positions of those who retired and resigned.
The LRA Bacolod is headed by an officer-in-charge, who has no authority to hire personnel, and President Duterte has not also appointed an LRA Administrator.
LRA Administrator Eulalio Diaz III resigned after former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III ended his term in June last year.
The Land Registration Authority is an agency of the Philippine Government under the Department of Justice responsible for issuing decrees of registration and certificates of title and register documents, patents and other land transaction for the benefit of landowners, agrarian reform-beneficiaries and the registering public in general; providing a secure, stable and trustworthy record of land ownership and recorded interests therein so as to promote social and economic well-being and contribute to the national development. (TDE)