Proclamation No. 1954




MALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES PROCLAMATION NO. 1954 PROCLAIMING THE TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION OVER SACOBIA RESETTLEMENT AREA FROM THE MINISTRIES OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND AGRARIAN REFORM TO THE MINISTRY OF HUMAN SETTLEMENTS. WHEREAS, the Ministry of Human Settlements, (MHS), in exercising its functions, has been given the task to provide the eleven basic needs to every human settlement, including relocation sites for squatter families; WHEREAS, Sacobia, 5,612 hectares of military reservation in Bamban, Tarlac and Mabalacat, Pampanga has been designated the relocation site for the Marcos and Macapagal squatter villages, particularly, another squatter villages in the periphery of the Clark Air Base Military Reservation, generally, including the San Vicente community, developed by the MHS as a Bagong Lipunan Sites and Services (BLISS) Level II pilot community with target beneficiaries of 100 families; WHEREAS, there is a pressing need to integrate and rationalize the facilities and services to be rendered to the beneficiary families of Sacobia, initial target of which is at 600 families.ℒαwρhi৷ WHEREAS, the BLISS Program of the MHS is an integrated human settlements approach in delivering basic services and facilities for the development of a new self-contained community, incorporating not only the housing component, but livelihood and ecosystem development as well; WHEREAS, the development of San Vicente in Sacobia, called for an immediate response to urgent shelter and livelihood needs, successfully met with inter-agency participation and thus exemplifies the immediate rendition of impact projects for the speedy development of the site; NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution and the sovereign will of the Filipino people, do hereby proclaim that Sacobia, a property of the Government of the Philippines and formerly jointly administered by the Ministries of National Defense and Agrarian Reform, be transferred to the Ministry of Human Settlements to undertake its development in consonance with the BLISS Program; accordingly, any provision of law, decree, executive order, ordinance, rules and regulations, inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, amended, or modified accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. Done in the City of Manila, this 25th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty. (SGD.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS President of the Philippines By the President: (SGD.) JOAQUIN T. VENUS, JR. Presidential Staff Director The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation