President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Agrarian Reform to resolve pending “vintage” agrarian reform cases, the agency’s Secretary Conrado Estrella III said. | DYGalvezINQ
The DAR chief said there are 2,400 cases still under the Agrarian Law Implementation division, half of which may be resolved soon.
He added that he is set to sign the resolution of 200 more cases by Wednesday, after announcing that DAR hasEstrella lamented the lack of lawyers who could work on pending agrarian reform cases, saying the agency still needs 64 lawyers, of which 30 would be stationed in the Central Office to focus on resolving these pending cases.
“Kaya hindi kami makaarangkada ay kulang kami sa mga abogado and we can only hire lawyers initially na ang suweldo is only P50,000 and it will be difficult for us to hire credible and capable lawyers with only P50,000 a month,” he said. “What we did in the Agrarian Reform is that iyong mga positions that are unfilled ‘no, we abolished these positions and we merged some of these positions and then we created other positions with higher salaries,” Estrella added.He said the vacant positions in the legal department have salaries of at least P84,000.
DAR still has around 500,000 hectares of land to distribute, Estrella said, and the agency aims to finish this backlog before 2028 or the end of Marcos’ term.Subscribe to our daily newsletter
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