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THE Supreme Court ruled with finality the other day that the coco levy funds impounded for so long by vested interests should finally be returned to the coconut industry. This comes close to the heels of the long march by dozens of weary farmers who trekked for 71 days from Davao to the Palace placing their tales of woe at the feet of the President. This was an act of desperation for the representatives of a couple of million coconut farmers who were robbed of their livelihood by a tax that was more hated than that imposed by the Romans to the Jewish community in Biblical times.

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