Another impeachment complaint to be filed on Monday (July 21) by the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) against President Benigno Aquino III will take him to task for P5.4 billion in agrarian reform funds that was allegedly facilitated through the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) to pay landowners, including the President’s relatives who own Hacienda Luisita.
About a thousand farmers marched to Mendiola in Manila on Monday to mark the expiration of what they called “bogus” Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and then called for free distribution of lands to farmers.
Around 20 members of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas slipped through security and staged a rally at the lobby of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Quezon farmers’ groups and the peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) on Tuesday welcomed moves by Congress to investigate a possible conflict of interest case involving coconut levy funds being claimed by the government-sequestered United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB).
Peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and the claimants movement Coco Levy Funds Ibalik sa Amin (Claim) on Wednesday assailed a bid by a sequestered bank to declare P15.6 billion of an estimated P71 billion in coco levy funds as bank-owned and not owned by coconut farmers.
