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COA rebukes DAR over undivided land of agrarian reform beneficiaries in Batangas

Published Aug 18, 2023 12:08 pm

At A Glance

  • The Commission on Audit (COA) has rebuked the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for inaction the past 31 years on the Collective Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) involving more than 64 hectares of land subjected to land reform in Batangas.

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The Commission on Audit (COA) has rebuked the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) for inaction the past 31 years on the Collective Certificates of Land Ownership Award (CCLOA) involving more than 64 hectares of land subjected to land reform in Batangas.

 

CCLOA refers to the existing Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) issued by DAR to farmers’ cooperative or association under the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

 

In its 2022 audit report, COA said that the CCLOA in Batangas is dated Dec. 28, 1992 but it has been pending either before the Provincial Office (PO) in Batangas or Registry of Deeds (ROD) for over 31 years which defeats the purpose of land tenure security to 44 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs).

 

During the field validation by its audit team, COA said its auditors were asked by 44 farmers on the status of their CLOAs.

 

It said when the query was endorsed to the Municipal Agrarian Reform Office (MARO), it was found that the CCLOA had been submitted to the register of deeds in 2013 and returned in 2016 for lack of original deed of partition.

 

Thus, it said, the CCLOA remained unprocessed.  It pointed out that the issue could have been resolved had the CCLOA been subjected to the DAR’s SPLIT project that involves the subdivision of collective land titles.

 

“The inaction of DAR Management on the pending CCLOA deprived the 44 agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) with the land tenure security who were awarded with the title way back Dec. 28, 1992,” the COA said. 

 

“These ARBs are already in their advanced age yet were not afforded land tenure security despite the lapse of over 31 years,” COA lamented.

 

It then recommended that the DAR should ask its provincial office to submit a status report on CCLOA and act immediately to benefit the ARBs.

 

If not done swiftly, COA said administrative sanctions should be imposed against erring officers in charge of SPLIT project on the CCLOA.  It said sanctions can be imposed under the provisions of Republic Act No. 11032, the Anti-Red Tape Act of 2007.

 

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