NCIP execs to settle rift with tribal leaders 02/06/2012

NCIP execs to settle rift with tribal leaders

02/06/2012
Officials of the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) have admitted responsibility in the negligence of a field-based investigation (FBI) in the consultation process that has delayed the issuance of a document that would have allowed mining operations in Brooke’s Point, Palawan.

NCIP Commissioner Dionesia Banua, representative of Chairman Zenaida Pawid, made the admission on Monday last week in a meeting called by the Ombudsman aimed to amicably settle the rift between tribal leaders from Palawan and the NCIP commissioners earlier charged for inaction on the result of the consultation approving mining operations in the Palawan town..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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