BAGUIO CITY: Keeping true to upholding indigenous peoples’ (IPs) rights to free and prior informed consent (FPIC), required under Section 59 of the landmark Republic Act 8371 or the “Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA),” the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples-Cordillera Administrative Region (NCIP-CAR) has issued a show-cause order to Dito Telecommunity for alleged violations of IP rights within ancestral domains (ADs) of Benguet province.

“It has come to our attention that your company has undertaken or is currently undertaking fiber-optics laying in the various ADs in Benguet province without securing the FPIC [from] concerned indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples (ICCs/IPs) and paying just and fair compensation for damages [that] they may sustain as consequence thereof,” stated the show-cause order of the NCIP-CAR to Dito from Regional Director Marlon Bosantog.

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