DAR: Luisita master list just preliminary
MANILA, Philippines - Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary Virgilio de Los Reyes yesterday said that what the department earlier released was a preliminary master list, not the final master list of Hacienda Luisita beneficiaries.
De los Reyes said any individual or group still has the chance to petition the DAR to include those they think should be in the list or exclude those they think are not deserving.
“The mere fact that certain peasant organizations have been able to scrutinize the preliminary master list, and identify certain persons they claim should not be in the list shows that the DAR is not hiding anything from the public. All records, including the file folders of all those included in the preliminary master list are open to the public,” he said.
The preliminary master list includes 5,365 farm workers while the provisional list contains 1,221 names.
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