Usec. Orlando R. Ravanera, Ceo, Vi, Csee

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Baungon Maecate Higaonon Tribe

Ancestral Land Domain Farmers Association


SEC Reg. No. CN201531529
Lacolac, Baungon, Bukidnon

September 21, 2020

USEC. ORLANDO R. RAVANERA, CEO, VI, CSEE


Chairman, Cooperative Development Authority
Quezon City, Philippines

Dear USEC. Ravanera;

Good day!

It is a great honor to know you as a person with a heart for Indigenous People (IPs) who are
in great need of help. It is believed that your brilliance and excellence can aid poor people
like us to escape the unjust happening in our area here in Lacolac, Baugon, Bukidnon.

We, the Maecate Higaonon Tribe Farmers Association, are writing this letter to seek from
your good office with regards to the problem from the Indigenous People Mandatory
Regulation (IPMR) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR),
herewith stated below;

1. We wrote a petition to JOVEL LITANON with regards to our problem to address to


NCIP, Talakag, Bukidnon. We also wrote the same petition to the provincial officer,
MA. SHERLENE D. SARIO, in which the petition was answerable within 30 days,
however, more than 30 days had passed there was no response or any form of action
coming from the petition submitted.
2. The NCIP collections officer received a cash payment for delineation and relocation
worth nine hundred thousand pesos (Php 900,000) from the organization. We asked
the bank regarding our payment, but the response we received stated that there was no
deposit coming from us to the bank.

MR. OSCAR BALDOMAN, ADO-NCIP, CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, whispered to


us that our money was used by PERLA N. RARA and SHERLENE D. SARIO for
their utilization.
3. Now, PERLA N. RARA, the president of IPMR together with 16 kagawads from
different barangays entered our ancestral domain with DENR personnel without any
permission from us or our elders. She sold 1, 000 hectares of our land to different
people outside our association.
Baungon Maecate Higaonon Tribe
Ancestral Land Domain Farmers Association
SEC Reg. No. CN201531529
Lacolac, Baungon, Bukidnon

By doing so, she has not done any initiatives that benefit and give welfare to tribal
groups of barangays. Instead of uniting all the tribes, she caused trouble and conflict.
4. Her motive in sitting as IPMR president is not about helping the tribes, rather it was
for personal interest. With the position, she has the power to hand and hold in all
transaction about the domain and the land which rightfully belongs to the tribes. She
disrespected and undermined the authority and leadership of the recognized Datus and
Baes of the place. She even tried to disrespect the authority of FLORITO L. UBOD
also known as DATU SUMASANGKA as the recognized tribal leader of Maecate
Higaonon Ancestral Domain, where records and other documents could prove that
DATU SUMASANGKA is the heir – successor of the ancestral domain, given that DI
SUMIBOG is his father.

For the abuse she has committed against the tribal leader, we decided to oust her by means of
petitions. And at this moment the association feels deep danger because of the buyers she
transacted with, they are retired men from the military and can potentially harm us.

This coming October 27, 2020 at 8:00 AM our land will be having a ritual headed by the
IPMR, DENR and kagawads from different barangays for the occupancy of the buyers.
IPMR, DENR and the kagawads also took a tax declaration within our domain violating our
right as claimant. And based on my knowledge, DENR has no right to interfere with ancestral
domains.

Sir, we trust your capabilities. We believe that you are the right person who can help us, with
your good governance and leadership our problems can be resolved. Herewith attached are
the certificate of CADT, receipt and tax declaration, request letter addressed to the Camp
Evangelista and the name of the seller and the buyers for your reference. I hope you can
prevent them by coming to our land on September 27, 2020 at 8:00 AM.

Thank you so much in advance and more power!

Sincerely yours,

FLORETO “DATU SUMASANGKA” L. UBOD


Heirs and head claimant
Baungon Maecate Higaonon Tribe
Ancestral Land Domain Farmers Association
SEC Reg. No. CN201531529
Lacolac, Baungon, Bukidnon

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