SERVED. Officials of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples Region 10, other government agencies, police, and military serve a cease and desist order on Kianteg Development Corporation in Quezon, Bukidnon on Saturday (April 30, 2022). The company and all other claimants are ordered to stay out of the property being claimed by the Manobo-Pulangihon Indigenous tribe as its ancestral land. (Photo courtesy of NCIP) CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - The National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has ordered a company occupying a portion of an ancestral domain in Quezon, Bukidnon to stop its operations on the disputed land. Allen Capuyan, NCIP chairperson, posted on Facebook on Saturday that a cease and desist order (CDO) has already been served to the Kianteg Development Corporation (KDC). Capuyan posted a copy of the CDO received by one of the Kianteg's security personnel guarding the contested site. The CDO was served by the NCIP-10 team with Office on Empowerment and Human Rights Di
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