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Former President and now House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will create an Oversight Committee to monitor the implementation of RA 9207 National Government Center Housing and Land Utilization Act of 2003 or the law that facilitated urban poor housing in Quezon City. Speaking during her consultation with beneficiaries of RA 9207 a law she signed when she was President in 2003 at the NGC West in Brgy. Holy Spirit Quezon City Tuesday Speaker Arroyo said she will constitute an Oversight Committee on RA 9207 at the House of Representatives to make sure that the law is properly implemented.Hundreds of urban poor families in NGC Brgy. Holy Spirit in Quezon City were awarded by then President Arroyo their own land as a result of RA 9207. While most of them had already been awarded their own titles some problems still exist particularly reports of land-grabbing and failure in the reblocking of some properties. Speaker Arroyo has been going around the country to visit the urban poor housing beneficiaries during her administration. She signed more than 100 presidential proclamations executive orders and laws that enabled thousands of urban poor families to acquire the land they have long been occupying.Under RA 9207 the Oversight Committee on RA 9207 will be chaired in the House by the Environment and Natural Resources Committee Chairman who is currently Cebu Rep. Rodrigo Abellanosa. Rep. Winnie Castelo of Quezon City will be a member of the committee and will chair the sub-committee on the concerns of Brgy. Holy Spirit because he is the congressmen of the said area.Speaker Arroyo pointed out that her creation of a new oversight committee is consistent with her earlier pronouncement that the Lower House will hold its oversight functions in the remaining months of her speakership because they have already passed all the priority bills of President Rodrigo Duterte.This is very consistent with what I said when we left for the Christmas Holidays that we already passed many good laws including my own law in 2003 thats why they are now owners of their property. But what is important now is to make sure that they are well implemented. So this is part of what I have been saying that thats the task I think the House of Reps. should be doing for the next six months she said.The new Oversight Committee will conduct it first hearing this Monday to thresh out the remaining problems of the residents in Brgy. Holy Spirit.