Screengrab image from a drone video of the Captain’s Peak resort at the foot of Chocolate Hills in Sagbayan, Bohol, shot on March 14, 2024, after netizens questioned its location in a protected area. The local government of Sagbayan has revoked the business permit of the resort after it was discovered that the resort was operating without an Environmental Compliance Certificate. Froilan Billiones, ABS-CBN News

MANILA — The Department of the Interior and Local Government said it has formed a task force to look into a resort built on the foot of the Chocolate Hills in Bohol.

DILG said in a statement that it will hold local officials found "complicit or negligent with respect to any violation" accountable.

"These officials may be suspended or dismissed," they added.  

Netizens criticized the establishment of  Captain's Peak resort in Sagbayan, Bohol earlier this week. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said it ordered the establishment closed. 

But the manager of the resort in response has come forward claiming that they were allowed to operate despite lacking an Environment Compliance Certificate (ECC), but stressed that they tried to acquire one. 

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