The Task Force Mapalad said in a press statement yesterday that they are demanding that the Register of Deeds in Bacolod City immediately restore their certificate of land ownership awards it cancelled in 2002.

Gregorio Paclibar, president of Hacienda Velez-Malaga Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organization, who held a protest rally at the ROD office at the Bacolod Hall of Justice yesterday, claimed that Registrar of Deeds Milagros Moya refused to restore the CLOA despite an order issued June 29 by the La Carlota City Regional Trial Court Branch 63.

Moya could not be reached for comment as of press time yesterday.

TFM's Lani Factor said the affected beneficiaries will meet with Moya today.

Paclibar said the farmers vowed not to stop their protest action until their CLOAs covering 144 hectares of Hacienda Velez-Malaga are restored.

TFM said the Department of Agrarian Reform provincial office had also asked Moya to immediately restore the CLOA.

They said that provincial agrarian reform officer Stephen Leonidas wrote Moya that the June 29 court order is already final and executory.

If Moya still refuses to restore their CLOA, they will file charges against her, Paclibar said.*

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