Farmer-beneficiaries of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program are asking that the construction of a two-classroom school extension building in Sta. Cruz Nuevo, Tanjay City, Negros Oriental be stopped, saying they own the land where it will be put up.

The beneficiaries went to the Don Placido Mapa Memorial School in Sta. Cruz Nuevo to ask school authorities to halt the construction of the extension building.

Rolando Quemada, a holder of the Certificate of Land Ownership Award from the Department of Agrarian Reform, said the site where the building is being constructed, is part of the land given him under the CARP.

He added that eight CLOA holders collectively own the six hectares of land where the school extension will be put up.

Quemada said he had earlier filed a complaint about the school project.*JFP

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