Poor residents, barangay and town officials, as well as environmental advocates, over the weekend deplored the national government’s inaction on the illegal and excessive mining that has ravaged the environment and aggra-vated the indigenous community of Tubay, Agusan del Norte.

But it did not come as a surprise to Tubay’s residents that their longstanding grievance has been swept under the rug with the interference of bigwigs in the Noynoy Aquino’s administration and the ruling Liberal Party (LP).

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