EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 136, October 21, 2002

DIRECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT TO DISPOSE OF 1,177 SQUARE METERS OF ITS PROPERTY IN BARANGAY LABANGON, CEBU CITY TO ITS BONA FIDE OCCUPANTS

WHEREAS, in line with the priority concern of the present Administration to provide housing to deserving landless and homeless families and ensure security of tenure of informal settler families occupying government lands which are no longer utilized for their intended purposes;

WHEREAS, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) owns a property in Barangay Labangon, Cebu City containing an area of 30,000 square meters;

WHEREAS, 1,177 square meters of said DSWD property is being occupied by more or less 30 informal settler families;

WHEREAS, the DSWD has expressed its intention to segregate and dispose of the said 1,177 square meter property to its present bona fide occupants under the socialized housing program of the government.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO , President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby direct DSWD to effect the disposition of the above described property with an area of 1,177 square meters to benefit its bona fide occupants.

IN WITNESS THEREOF, 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 21st day of October, in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and two.

(SGD.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO

By the President:

(SGD.) ALBERTO G. ROMULO

Executive Secretary