Transco moves to resolve ROW claims of Mindanao landowners

State-run National Transmission Corp. (Transco) has requested the Pilipinas Para sa Pinoy (PPP) to present documents that would support the right-of-way claims of the 87 landowners in Mindanao that it was representing.

“To date, we have not received a single supporting document. What we got on April 2 was a letter saying they were preparing the documents. PPP has yet to indicate if the people on its list are existing, that they indeed own the subject lots, or that their lots are indeed affected by the transmission lines,” Transco president Rolando Bacani said in a statement.

These documents, according to Transco, are required to determine whether the ROW claims are valid as there are cases in which there are many claimants for pieces of land that were not even affected by the lines.

During the validation process, papers will be checked for authenticity and for ground survey.

Based on Transco’s initial information, there were four landowners represented by PPP who had executed ROW grants in favor of National Power Corp. and had already received easement payments.

“We also have yet to see PPP’s authority to represent the landowners as we have also requested in our letter,” Bacani added. “We need to make sure the papers signed by the landowners with PPP are in order.”