POLITICAL CORRECTNESS be damned. Call a spade a spade.
Squatters who have been occupying Clark lands, and benefitting from it sans any returns to the government for many years now are – finally – being evicted.
“After exhausting all legal remedies, including a series of dialogues and notices through the years,” the Clark International Airport Corp.’s Committee on Informal Settlers set the “process of clearing informal settlers occupying lands within the Clark Civil Aviation Complex, Clark Freeport Zone” beginning Wednesday.
Specific area for clearing is the so-called Group 4 along the north side of Clark airport’s existing passenger terminal and alongside the Mabalacat Road and the old Ammo Dump, where shall site the access road network for Clark airport’s New Passenger Terminal Building Project.
Since 2009, countless dialogues with the squatters have been conducted “in the hope of amicable settlements, but to no avail.” This, even as “several notices of eviction were also served to heads of families in the occupied areas.”
The land has never been classified as agricultural, and the occupiers were not farmers, CIAC said.
Their continuing occupation of the land is an obstacle to the development of the airport, as well as “posing serious hazard to airport operations as farm produce attract birds and the likelihood of bird strikes also increase especially so that Clark airport is now registering 440 flights per week.”
Clark airport development is much too much a stake to be merely hostaged by squatters.
