The high court ordered the family of President Benigno Aquino III to distribute the almost five thousand hectares of Hacienda Luisita.
Philippine court orders Aquino family to hand over the Hacienda Luisita
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According to several news sites, the Philippine Supreme Court has ordered the distribution of the 4,915 hectares sugarcane plantation lands owned by the family of President Benigno Aquino III to thousands of farmworkers under the government land reform program.
The government’s land reform policy aims to hand control over agricultural lands to the farmworkers. “We realize that the farm worker beneficiaries will never have control over these agricultural lands for as long as they remain as stockholders" in Hacienda Luisita Inc., where they would remain minority owners, the court said.
Antonio Ligon, company lawyer and spokesperson, suggested that the sugar estate would possible to comply with the order, which he has not yet have the copy. "No one is above the law," Ligon told the ABS-CBN TV, a local TV network.
He also mentioned about 4,000 other farmers at the estate deserved land but was barred in the court ruling.
The Aquino’s who owned mostly of the Hacienda Luisita also ordered by the court to pay the farmers up to 1.3 billion pesos from past sales of sugarcane plantation lands, including the developed residential area and modern highway.
Meanwhile, the Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said in a news conference, Aquino divested his share of the family wealth in the hacienda a month after he won a landslide victory in last year's presidential. "He has already divested, so there is nothing that will put him in a compromising position".
Philippine court orders Aquino family to hand over the Hacienda Luisita
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