DAVAO DEL NORTE, FEB. 23 (PIA) - Concerned local chief executives of Davao del Norte have denounced allied groups of the Communist Party of the Philippines- New Peoples Army (CPP-NPA) for taking advantage of indigenous peoples (IP) children taken from their ancestral domains without parental consent.
In a press conference, Talaingod Municipal Mayor Jonnie Libayao said a group of parents came to him seeking his assistance and that of the Tribal Council to look for their children who had not been home for so long a time.
Libayao then consequently approached Provincial Governor Edwin I. Jubahib asking him help to locate the lost children. They went to an IP facility called “Haran” located at a compound of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) in Davao City.
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