ANAC-IP PARTY LIST PICKS BAYUG-ILIGAN ANCESTRAL DOMAIN HEAD CLAIMANT/IPMR TO THE CITY COUNCIL AS FOCAL PERSON FOR IP PROBLEM IN MISAMIS ORIENTAL AND LANAO AREA

By Tito Natividad Fiel

ILIGAN-CITY – Datu Diamla Rolando D. So-ong, the head claimant of Bayug-Iligan Ancestral Domain send Wednesday about 120 tribal delegates to the Indigenous People Summit held in Cagayan de Oro City sponsored by the ANAC-IP Party List.

The delegates coming from the 12 Barangays of Iligan where largely populated by the Higaonon Tribe that most of them are in the ancestral domain.

Tribal Delegates from Bayug-Iligan Ancestral Domain led by Chief of  Staff of

Datu Diamla Jonah Alivio, seating second from left. 

Datu Diamla told to Tingog Bayug in an interview at his home Wednesday that, the summit where productive as it tackling issues on their land title, empowerment and other  with the National Commission on Indigenous People which always no budget.

“ We are happy that the Anac-IP Party List trusted us and picked us as focal person for Lanao Area and Misamis Oriental in bringing their problem to Anac-IP Party List for action as hard for them  attend problem individually” Datu Diamla said.

He said that issues of IPs in the summit will always mention their dissatisfaction of services from National Commission on Indigenous People, which sometimes, their community needs are not covered of the NCIP budget.

Datu Diamla Rolandd D. So-ong, Head Claimant of the Bayug
Iligan Ancestral Domain and Indigenous People Mandatory Rep
to the Sanguniang Panlungsod of Iligan City which in 2nd term

Datu Diamla lauded the forward looking of the Anac-IP which for him fitter of their outlooks for IP community Development through Empowerment.

In 1997, the Republic Act 8371 known as Indigenous Peoples Rights Act was approved by congress and signed into law by President Fidel V. Ramos.

But some of the applied ancestral domain, the certificates have not yet been awarded to the community where attributed to the shortfall of the NCIP efforts together with lacking of documentations and requirements from the ground.

With the presence of Anac-IP Party List in congress, an Indigenous People focus party, the Hgaonon Tribe of Bayug-Iligan Ancestral Domain and adjacent places hoped the IP problem in land titling would be minimized if not eradicated.