THE last time I saw Agrarian Reform Secretary Conrado Estrella III was at the 79th birthday celebration of Philippine Red Cross chairman and CEO Richard J. Gordon. I said I would be calling on him shortly to seek his help on behalf of an old friend and mass media practitioner — a former president of the Cagayan de Oro Press Club (COPC) and former chairman of the Xavier University Development Communication Department, who is fighting for her rights and those of her children over a 20-hectare property in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon.
The land is now being subjected to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) in a process that the owners have described as improper, illegal and void.
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