SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—Some farmers and Aeta tribesmen were asked to stop encroaching on government-administered land and clearing forests to build illegal settlements inside this free port.
In a statement on Friday (April 16) Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Administrator Wilma Eisma said the intrusion and illegal settlements violate the law and an agreement between the agency and the Aeta tribe on the use and disposition of ancestral lands here.
“Your efforts in clearing land and building shacks will simply be wasted if you’re activities are illegal. The authorities will simply dismantle what you build,” Eisma said.
“There has long been an agreement on the ancestral d…
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