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Monsod: Negros solons pro-land owners
By MARTY GO
ABS-CBN Bacolod Former Commission on Elections chairman Christian Monsod on Wednesday scored Negros congressmen for allegedly being pro-land owners after they rejected the passage of a bill extending the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program .
"I'm not surprised because Negros congressmen or most of them anyway, have always been against CARP because I think most of them belong to the land owner class and they still have not absorbed the fact that the right to land is God-given," said Monsod, chairman of the Philippine Agrarian Reform for Unity and National Development.
Monsod is strongly pushing for the extension of CARP since there are still many undistributed lands in some provinces in the country.
President Arroyo has signed the bill, which is still pending at the House of Representatives, as urgent.
The CARP will expire on June 10, three days before the House goes on recess.
Monsod is also calling for strong reforms in the program once it is extended.
"The lands that have not been distributed, many of them are by large "hacienderos", who have managed to resist and circumvent agrarian reform," he said.
Monsod added that farmers seeking for their part of the estaes had been violently threatened and harassed by the government.
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