BAYAN Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat on Wednesday condemned the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) for granting a Certification Precondition (CP) to Sagittarius Mines Inc. (SMI), the developer of the Tampakan project in South Cotabato.

The CP issued to SMI certifies that the company has complied with the procedure and process requirements and the Free and Prior Informed Consent of indigenous cultural communities. It is an essential requirement that would allow SMI to explore and extract mining deposits within the ancestral domain covered by the Tampakan project. It was issued by NCIP Chairman Allen Capuyan in Quezon City on September 19.