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DavNor Guv warns IPs against selling parcels of ancestral lands

DAVAO DEL  NORTE, 03 March (PIA) ---  “Ayaw mo pamaligya sa inyong mga yuta. (Don’t sell your lands).”   Davao del Norte Provincial Governor Edwin I. Jubahib recently made this call to all tribal datu (chieftains) in the indigenous peoples municipality of Talaingod, telling them to  stay at their ancestral domains, to till and keep their lands.   Aside from assuring  the Ata Manobo IP leaders of access roads, electrification, schools and even  tertiary education institutions, the provincial governor also assured them of assistance for  agriculture development.   “Mag-focus ta ug agriculture kay kamo  usa ka munisipyo alang sa agriculture kay dako kaayo ang inyong yuta. (Let us focus on agriculture. You are an agriculture municipality because  you have wide land areas),” he told the tribal chieftains attending the recently held “Mass Surrender and Declaration of ‘Pagsalikway against the CPP-NPA-NDG by the Surrenderees” at  the Balimba Hills Activity Center, Sitio JBL , Brgy Santo Nino,