SP creates Ad hoc body to settle issues
SISON-TUBA BOUNDARY DISPUTE
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan created an ad hoc committee headed by Vice Governor Mark Lambino to tackle the boundary dispute between the municipalities of Sison town in Pangasinan and Tuba town in Benguet, that heated up anew after a long lull.
Vice Governor Lambino nominated Sixth District Board Member Noel Bince, chairman of the committee on laws, as vice chairman of the ad hoc committee. Bince accepted the nomination.
The move was recommended by Fifth District Board Member Nicholi Jan Sison citing the letter to the SP of Christina Garcia, secretary of the Sangguniang Bayan of Sison, referring a resolution of the Sison Sanggunian entitled “A resolution earnestly requesting the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of the province of Pangasinan to intercede on behalf of the Municipality of Sison, Pangasinan for immediate resolution of its boundary dispute with the Municipality of Tuba, Benguet”.
Sison said the ad hoc committee must tackle and resolve the boundary dispute but also the strained relations between Pangasinan and Benguet provincial governments because of the unresolved boundary dispute.
The dispute stemmed from claims over Sitio Saguitlang in Barangay Labayug in Sison, which is also being claimed by Tuba local government.
In 2017, the Tuba SB passed a resolution requesting proper government agencies to deliver the town’s share in the utilization of natural resources in its area by the Northern Cement Corporation (NCC), a cement manufacturing company conducting its extraction activities in an area comprising 1,560 hectares.
Since the start of its operations 50 years ago, NCC has been paying extraction fees, real property taxes and mining taxes yearly to the municipality of Sison.
Responding to the Tuba Sanggunian resolution, the Sison Sanggunian in 2017 passed a resolution asserting that Sitio Saguitlang in Barangay Labayug is part of the territorial jurisdiction of Sison.
The 10th Sanggunian expressed support to the municipality of Sison in asserting its jurisdiction over Sitio Saguitlang in Labayug, Sison in a resolution then authored by 5th District Board Member Rosary Perez-Tababa. (Leonardo Micua)
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