PEOPLE’S LAWYER PERSIDA RUEDA – ACOSTA IS ASKED TO PROBE TO PROVE ONEMIG BONDOC’S ILLEGAL DEMOLITION AT SITIO GANTUAN

 

 

PUBLIC ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (PAO) CHIEF PERSIDA V. RUEDA – ACOSTA HAS RECENTLY BEEN ASKED TO CONDUCT THE APPROPRIATE PROBE TO PROVE THAT THE ALLEGED “GANTUAN MOST RUTHLESS MAN” JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC IS INDEED ILLEGAL OR UNLAWFUL.

 

 

In a letter dated 30 August 2017, Mr. Joel Operario Amongo, the incumbent President of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT – NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSION (DILG – NAPOLCOM) PRESS CLUB  called the attention of the Filipino people’s lawyer, the Honorable PERSIDA V. RUEDA – ACOSTA, the CHIEF OF THE PHILIPPINES’ PUBLIC ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (PAO) to undertake the requested investigation on that tragic incident.

 

 

The move of the DILG NAPOLCOM Press Club President was triggered by the inaction of PHILIPPINE SENATE PRESIDENT AQUILINO "KOKO" MARTIN DE LA LLANA PIMENTEL III in a letter- request dated 20 July 2017 of the same residents – victims and witnesses of an illegal demolition at Sitio Gantuan, Barangay Nagbalayong, Municipality of Morong, Province of Bataan on 24 June 2016; which also further requests to preempt, prevent and eventually stop another demolition that is reportedly scheduled to be conducted this month of September 2017.  

 

Aside from the letter that was already received at the office of the Senate President, a petition had already been for more than a month running at the change.org website entitled “DEMOLITION MAN KOKO PIMENTEL'S ASKED TO DEMOLISH ONEMIG BONDOC, GANTUAN MOST RUTHLESS MAN” but to no avail.

 

Asked for help by the residents – victims and witnesses of the said 24 June 2016 demolition, Mr. Amongo, the former vice president of the Quezon City Press Club Inc. thus appeals and begs the topmost official of the PAO to conduct an appropriate probe to prove if indeed the demolition that was undertaken by a certain JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC at Sitio Gantuan, Barangay Nagbalayong, Municipality of Morong, Province of Bataan on 24 June 2016 was legitimate or illegal.

 

 

The letter, in full length reads:

 

 

30 August 2017

 

 

HONORABLE PERSIDA V. RUEDA – ACOSTA

CHIEF

PUBLIC ATTORNEY’S OFFICE (PAO)

 

 

Subject: An ardent request to your good Office to conduct the appropriate investigation on the illegal demolition of forty (40) houses of residents that was undertaken at Sitio Gantuan, Barangay Nagbalayong, Municipality of Morong, Province of Bataan on that fateful heavily raining Friday, 24 June 2016; and further request to hold in abeyance all moves to undertake another demolition of about two thousand five hundred (2,500) plus remaining houses of another residents of said Sitio Gantuan this month of September 2017 by a certain JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC

 

 

Dear PAO Chief Rueda - Acosta:

 

 

Greetings of Peace and Justice!

 

 

We closely monitor your activities which clearly have shown your genuine concern to our less fortunate fellow Filipinos. It is this premise that I personally would like to make this appeal.

 

 

This incidents are brought to my attention by BUKLOD ASSOCIATION OF SITIO GANTUAN PRESIDENT ISRAEL L. LALIS and BARANGAY MASAGANA (Sitios Marukdok, Sampaloc, Gantuan and Napot) CHAIRMAN DANILO A. SAUCE.

 

 

Sadly, they approached various personalities and some government agencies but to no avail. Their cries and prayers all fell on deaf ears of these said individuals and government offices.

 

 

Thus, this letter is to most ardently request your good Office to please CONDUCT AN IMMEDIATE COMPREHENSIVE, CONCRETE AND IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION ON THE "MERCILESS, INHUMAN, UNJUST, RUTHLESS THAN ANIMAL OR DEVILISH AND TOO FRIGHTENING DEMOLITION" WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN AT ABOUT FORTY (40) INFRASTRUCTURES, RESIDENTIAL HOUSES AND HOMES OF THE FAMILIES WHO ARE LEGITIMATE AND LONG - TIME RESIDENTS OF SITIO GANTUAN, BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG, MUNICIPALITY OF MORONG, PROVINCE OF BATAAN ON THAT FATEFUL HEAVILY RAINING FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2016 BY MORE OR LESS THREE HUNRED (300) "PAID" SOLDIERS, POLICEMEN AND ARMED CIVILIANS WHO WERE "CONTRACTED OR HIRED" BY A CERTAIN JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC.

 

 

This letter FURTHER REQUEST TO HOLD IN ABEYANCE ALL MOVES TO UNDERTAKE ANOTHER DEMOLITION AS A RESULT OF THE PRE - DEMOLITION CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD ON 26 JULY 2017 AT THE MORONG (BATAAN) MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM WHICH WAS INITIATED BY A CERTAIN RODEL E. FRANCISCO WHO INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS CHIEF OF OPERATION, FIELD OPERATIONS DIVISION FOR LUZON OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION FOR THE URBAN POOR, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.

 

 

As coursed through the undersigned, this letter – request is actually the appeal, the cry and pleading on your heart of these residents – victims and witnesses of the said 24 June 2016 demolition NOT TO REPEAT THAT FATEFUL INCIDENT WHICH RESULTED TO THE DEATH of one of the residents due to said instance.

 

 

Let the PAO probe proves and determines once and for all the legitimacy or legality of the conduct of the unstoppable and selfish “land grabbing” of the man who, in the world of show business and politics seems “an archangel and innocuous/ harmless hero and the protector of the poor, the weak and the less fortunate.”

 

 

Yours truly is the former VICE PRESIDENT OF THE QUEZON CITY PRESS CLUB INC.

 

 

In anticipation of your favorable, timely and proper action, I remain

 

 

 

Your partner in the public service,

 

 

 

JOEL OPERARIO AMONGO

President, DILG - NAPOLCOM Press Club

9TH FLOOR, MEDIA CENTER

DILG – NAPOLCOM BUILDING

QUEZON AVENUE CORNER EDSA, QUEZON CITY

mobile phone nos. 09192116169

 

It can be recalled that a similar petition entitled “DEMOLITION MAN KOKO PIMENTEL'S ASKED TO DEMOLISH ONEMIG BONDOC, GANTUAN MOST RUTHLESS MAN” had been undertaken by this writer but it fails to gather enough signatories, it remains without full support and without yet any concrete result (the Philippine Senate President simply ignore the appeals and cries of the residents of

 

 

It reads: The “Demolition Man” is one of the favorite movies of all time!

 

For those of you who do not know yet the film “Demolition Man,” it is the condition and situation in year 1996, a post - Apocalyptic Los Angeles (LA) where gang warfare is ordinarily, the order of the day.

 

“Demolition Man” is a 1993 American science fiction action film. The film stars Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes.

 

The film tells the story of two men: an evil crime lord and a risk - taking police officer. Cryogenically frozen in 1996, they are restored to life in the year 2032 to find mainstream society changed and all crime seemingly eliminated.

 

Flashback: In 1996, psychopathic career criminal Simon Phoenix kidnaps a number of hostages and takes refuge with his gang in an abandoned building. Los Angeles Police Department Sergeant John Spartan uses a thermal scan of the building and finds no trace of the hostages and leads an unauthorized assault to capture Phoenix.

 

When he is captured, Phoenix sets off a series of explosives that bring down the building. The corpses of the hostages are found in the rubble which leads to the arrest of Spartan for manslaughter.

 

 

He is incarcerated along with Phoenix in the city's new "California Cryo - Penitentiary" where they are cryogenically frozen and exposed to subconscious rehabilitation techniques.

 

During their incarceration, the "Great Earthquake" of 2010 leads the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Barbara to merge into a single metropolis under the name San Angeles. The city becomes Utopia - run under the pseudo - Pacifist guidance and control of the evangelistic Dr. Raymond Cocteau where human behavior is tightly controlled. In 2032, Phoenix is defrosted for a parole hearing. He inexplicably knows and uses the access codes to the security systems and escapes the prison.

 

The police force who has not dealt with violent crime for several years is unable to handle Phoenix. Cocteau verbally authorizes the police to employ all means at their disposal to contain Phoenix. Lt. Lenina Huxley suggests that Spartan - the police officer who caught Phoenix be revived and reinstated to the force to help them stop  Phoenix again.

 

Spartan who has spent 36 years in cryo - stasis until the present, is thawed, reinstated and assigned to Lieutenant Lenina Huxley to help with acclimation to the future which he finds depressing and oppressive. Others on the police force find his behavior brutish and uncivilized and Huxley, though fascinated by the lifestyles of the late 20th century hero is disgusted when Spartan suggests kissing and have sexual intercourse, acts which are taboo in the future due to their unsanitary exchange of bodily fluids and risk of transmitting diseases.

 

Even after six officers fail to apprehend and subdue Phoenix, the police chief remains confident of success and predicts, with the help of a computer algorithm, that Phoenix will attempt to establish a crime syndicate which Spartan finds ludicrous. Spartan instead correctly anticipates that Phoenix will attempt to secure firearms, which by 2032 are only in museum exhibits, thus Spartan and Phoenix have their first face – to - face confrontation in 2032 at the local museum when Phoenix breaks into a museum's weapon exhibition to arm himself. Phoenix escapes and encounters Dr. Cocteau but finds he is unable to shoot Cocteau. Dr. Cocteau reminds Phoenix to assassinate Edgar Friendly, the leader of the resistance group called the Scraps that fight against Cocteau's rule, and allows Phoenix to bring other criminals out of cryo - sleep to help at his request. After seeing the exchange on security cameras, Spartan and Huxley review the cryo - prison records and find that instead of an appropriate criminal rehabilitation program, Phoenix had been given the information necessary for his escape by Cocteau directly. They also discover information directing Phoenix towards Friendly and go off to warn him.

 

At the Scraps' underground base, Spartan convinces Friendly of the threat and takes sympathy in their cause given what he has seen above ground. Spartan and the Scraps ward off an attack by Phoenix's gang, leading to a car chase between Spartan and Phoenix. Phoenix taunts Spartan by revealing that when they originally encountered each other in 1996, the hostages were already dead (which explained that the hostages were killed by Phoenix himself) which was the reason why Spartan spent 36 years in prison for no reason at all. Phoenix escapes and Spartan arms himself with the help from the Scraps as they emerge in force to get food.

 

Phoenix returns to Dr. Cocteau with his gang and as the rehabilitation programming prevents him from killing Cocteau, orders one of his gang members to do so. They go back to the Cryo - Prison and begin to thaw out the most dangerous convicts. Spartan enters the prison alone to fight Phoenix, heavily damaging the facility in the process and eventually uses the cryogenic chemical to kill Phoenix. Spartan escapes the prison before it explodes and regroups with the police and the Scraps. The police fear the loss of Cocteau and that the Cryo - Prison will send their society into a downward spiral but Spartan suggests that they and the Scraps work together to create a society which combines the best aspects of order and personal freedom. He then kisses Huxley (which she finds enjoyable) and the two go off together.

 

A psychotic gang leader named Simon Phoenix (the role played by Wesley Snipes) has taken a bus load of hostages and John ‘Demolition Man’ Spartan (played by Sylvester Stallone) disobeys orders to take down Phoenix. These hostages were all mercilessly killed.

 

Spartan is unfortunately falsely accused of manslaughter for the death of the hostages which brought or sent both Phoenix and to a ‘cryo prison.’

 

When Phoenix escaped into a crime - free Utopian LA in 2032, the police are not prepared to deal with his level of violence. They have no choice but to defrost Spartan so that he could take down Phoenix again (Wikipedia)

 

NOW, in the present time and here in the Philippines, in an open letter – request dated 20 July 2017 which is addressed to HONORABLE AQUILINO "KOKO" MARTIN DE LA LLANA PIMENTEL III, THE INCUMBENT SENATE PRESIDENT of the Senate of the Republic of the Philippines, the witnesses and victims – residents of demolition on that fateful heavily raining Friday, 24 June 2016 of about forty (40) houses on Sitio Gantuan in Barangay Nagbalayong, Municipality of Morong, Province of Bataan, they asked “THE DEMOLITION MAN” AQUILINO "KOKO" PIMENTEL III TO DEMOLISH JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC, THE “SITIO GANTUAN” ALLEGED MOST RUTHLESS MAN.

 

Senator Pimentel, commonly known as Koko Pimentel, is the 28th and current Senate President of the Philippines. He is also the current president of the Partido Demokratiko Pilipino - Lakas ng Bayan (PDP – Laban).

 

The subject of the said letter - request: “IN AID OF LEGISLATION, URGENTLY REQUESTING THE SENATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES TO CONDUCT AN IMMEDIATE COMPREHENSIVE, CONCRETE AND IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION ON THE "MERCILESS, INHUMAN, UNJUST, RUTHLESS THAN ANIMAL OR DEVILISH AND TOO FRIGHTENING DEMOLITION" WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN AT ABOUT FORTY (40) INFRASTRUCTURES, RESIDENTIAL HOUSES AND HOMES OF OUR FAMILIES WHO ARE LEGITIMATE AND LONG - TIME RESIDENTS OF SITIO GANTUAN, BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG, MUNICIPALITY OF MORONG, PROVINCE OF BATAAN ON THAT FATEFUL HEAVILY RAINING FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2016 BY MORE OR LESS THREE HUNRED (300) "PAID" SOLDIERS, POLICEMEN AND ARMED CIVILIANS WHO WERE "CONTRACTED OR HIRED" BY JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC; AND FURTHER REQUEST TO HOLD IN ABEYANCE ALL MOVES TO UNDERTAKE ANOTHER DEMOLITION SPECIFICALLY THE HOLDING OF THE PRE - DEMOLITION CONFERENCE ON 26 JULY 2017 AT THE MORONG (BATAAN) MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM WHICH IS BEING INITIATED BY A CERTAIN RODEL E. FRANCISCO WHO IS INTRODUCING HIMSELF AS CHIEF OF OPERATION, FIELD OPERATIONS DIVISION FOR LUZON OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION FOR THE URBAN POOR, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.” 

FURTHER, THIS SITIO GANTUAN WITNESSES AND VICTIMS – RESIDENTS THEMSELVES SAID “Dear Senate President Pimentel: AS WE OURSELVES , OUR FAMILIES AND OUR NEIGHBORS ARE THE WITNESSES AND THE VICTIMS – RESIDENTS, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, WE ARE NOW URGENTLY REQUESTING THE SENATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES TO PLEASE CONDUCT AN IMMEDIATE COMPREHENSIVE, CONCRETE AND IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION ON THE "MERCILESS, INHUMAN, UNJUST, RUTHLESS THAN ANIMAL OR DEVILISH AND TOO FRIGHTENING DEMOLITION" WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN AT ABOUT FORTY (40) INFRASTRUCTURES, RESIDENTIAL HOUSES AND HOMES OF OUR FAMILIES WHO ARE LEGITIMATE AND LONG - TIME RESIDENTS OF SITIO GANTUAN, BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG, MUNICIPALITY OF MORONG, PROVINCE OF BATAAN ON THAT FATEFUL HEAVILY RAINING FRIDAY, 24 JUNE 2016 BY MORE OR LESS THREE HUNRED (300) "PAID" SOLDIERS, POLICEMEN AND ARMED CIVILIANS WHO WERE "CONTRACTED OR HIRED" BY JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC; AND FURTHER REQUEST TO HOLD IN ABEYANCE ALL MOVES TO UNDERTAKE ANOTHER DEMOLITION SPECIFICALL THE HOLDING OF THE PRE - DEMOLITION CONFERENCE ON 26 JULY 2017 AT THE MORONG (BATAAN) MUNICIPAL CONFERENCE ROOM WHICH IS BEING INITIATED BY A CERTAIN RODEL E. FRANCISCO WHO IS INTRODUCING HIMSELF AS CHIEF OF OPERATION, FILED OPERATIONS DIVISION FOR LUZON OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION FOR THE URBAN POOR, OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT.” 

 

“WE ARE THIS TIME COURAGEOUSLY TAKING THIS INITIATIVE IN THE HOPE THAT THIS JUAN MIGUEL "ONEMIG" BONDOC AND ALL INVOLVED AND CULPRITS TO THESE "CRIMES" WOULD BE ONCE AND FOR ALL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED AT THE SOONEST POSSIBLE TIME FOR OTHERS NOT TO EMULATE THEM, FOR THEM NOT TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE DOING THESE ANOMALIES AND THEIR EVIL WAYS AND THAT THEY WOULD BE PREEMPTED AND PREVENTED TO AGAIN CONDUCT OF YET ANOTHER IMPLEMETATION OF THEIR PLANNED CONTINUED OR REPEAT DEMOLITION WHICH ARE REPORTEDLY TIMELY SCHEDULED TO BE INITIATED ANY TIME OR ANY DAY THESE COMING MONTHS WITHIN THIS YEAR," THEY REVEALED IN THE SAID LETTER – REQUEST.

 

“YOUR HONOR MAY PLEASE USE AS BASIS AND REFERENCE THE HEREWITH ATTACHED HANDWRITTEN MANIFESTO WHICH IN FULL DECLARED, "STRONGLY DEMANDED TO BE INCLUDED AMONG THOSE TO BE IMMEDIATELY INVESTIGATED AND SOONEST TO BE TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE POSITIONS IN THE GOVERNMENT WHILE THE REQUESTED INQUIRY IS BEING HELD AND ONGOING ARE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM ADJUDICATION BOARD [(DARAB), MUNICIPALITY OF DINALUPIHAN, BATAAN PROVINCE] PROVINCIAL ADJUDICATOR ROBERT ANTHONY P. YU, BATAAN AND ZAMBALES ACTING DARAB SHERIFF EDCEL T. GONZALES; SURVEYORS JOANA BALESTEROS SORIANO AND ZALDY "ALIAS PUGO" MARCIAL; POLICE SENIOR INSPECTOR JEFFREY ONDE, P/SINSP SOLOMON, POLICE OFFICER 1 BALDOZ OF PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE (PNP) MORONG (BATAAN), P01 PEREZ OF PNP MORONG AND THE OTHER MEMBERS AND OFFICERS OF THE DEMOLITION SQUAD/ DEMOLITION TEAM WHICH WAS COMPOSED OF POLICEMEN, SOLDIERS, CAFGU, BARANGAY TANODS OF BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG AND THE YET TO BE IDENTIFIED DRIVER OF THE BULLDOZER WHICH WAS USED DURING THE DEMOLITION PROPER. (FOR THEM NOT TO BE ABLE TO USE THEIR TURF AND INFLUENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT TO DEFEND AND BAIL THEMSELVES OUT OF THE CASE AND THAT THEY WOULD ALSO NOT ENCOURAGE, GIVE FAVOR OR INTIMIDATE WITNESSES) BECAUSE THEY ALLEGEDLY CONSPIRED WITH ONEMIG BONDOC AND THOSE OTHERS WHO ALSO CONNIVED TO SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENT THE ALLEGED ILLEGAL DEMOLITION," THESE SITIO GANTUAN WITNESSES AND VICTIMS – RESIDENTS FURTHER STATED IN THEIR LETTER – REQUEST.

 

“FURTHER REQUESTED TO BE ALSO SUBJECTED TO THOROUGH INVESTIGATION ARE ONEMIG BONDOC'S EMPLOYEES, NAMELY FELIX ECLEVIA, ROLAN LAGRAN, BONG RABAS LEGASPI (PROPERTY CUSTODIAN) AND JOVENTINO MANLAPAZ (CARETAKER).
"IT IS A MUST THAT MORONG TOWN (BATAAN) INCUMBENT MAYOR CYNTHIA ESTANISLAO AND BATAAN CONGRESS(WO)MAN GERALDINE ROMAN SHOULD ALSO BE INVITED DURING THE CONDUCT OF THE APPROPRIATE PROBE FOR THEM TO SHED LIGHT AND PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE ISSUES AT HAND IN THE SAME SITUATION THAT DR. EUSEBIO AQUINO OF ST. JOSEPH HOSPITAL (BALANGA, BATAAN), BAGAC TOWN (BATAAN) EX VICE MAYOR ANTONIO DE LEON AND ALL THE OTHERS WHO MIGHT BE INVOLVED OR MAY HAVE KNOWLEDGE AND OR INDEED PARTICIPATED IN THE COMMISSION OF THE ALLEGED 'CRIMES' BE AS WELL OBLIGED TO ATTEND THE REQUESTED INQUIRY," THE SITIO GANTUAN WITNESSES AND VICTIMS – RESIDENTS FARTHER DECLARED IN THE SAME LETTER.

 

“PLEASE BE FURTHER INFORMED THAT WE HELD ABOUT A COUPLES OF WEEKS AGO A MEETING TO COMMEMORATE THE SUBJECT 24 JUNE 2016 DEMOLITION AND AMONG THOSE WHO ATTENDED ARE THE SAID SAME FAMILIES AND OUR NEIGHBORS WHO ARE THE WITNESSES AND THE VICTIMS – RESIDENTS THEMSELVES,” THEY NARRATED IN THE SAID LETTER – REQUEST ADDRESSED TO INCUMBENT SENATE PRESIDENT.

 

“IN THE GATHERING AND MEETING IN THE SAID SITIO OF OUR WITNESSES AND US, THE VICTIMS - RESIDENTS OURSELVES WHO ALL ARE BORN OR LONG – TIME RESIDENTS IN THE SAME NEIGBORHOOD AND BARANGAY, WE EXPRESSED OUR FURY AND UTMOST INDIGNATION OVER THE ILLEGAL DEMOLITION AND TOGETHER AND IN SOLIDARITY, WE HAD WRITTEN OUR RESPECTIVE NAMES AND AFFIXED OUR INDIVIDUAL SIGNATURES IN THE MANIFESTO WHICH WAS LED BY THE UNDERSIGNED "BARANGAY MASAGANA" (SITIO MARUKDOK, SAMPALOC, GANTUAN AND NAPOT) "CHAIRMAN" DANILO A. SAUCE AND BUKLOD ASSOCIATION OF SITIO GANTUAN (BASG) PRESIDENT ISRAEL L. LALIS,” READ THE PORTION OF THE SAME LETTER – REQUEST.

 

“WE AND OUR FELLOW BARANGAY RESIDENTS AND NEIGHBORS, NAMELY ROMY DEVERA, CHRISTINA DEVERA, ROVENA ALVAREZ, NELSON ALVAREZ, MELDIN MEDALLA, RHEA MEDALLA, MINERVA MEDALLA, APOLINARIO MEDALLA, SHEILA PUTIAN, HILDA PUTIAN, EDUARDO PUTIAN JR., EDUARDO PUTIAN SR., DANILO TESADO, LEONORA VARGAS, RAMIEL DUAZO, VILLAMOR HABAES JR., JENNALYN NOYA, JOSEFINA SAGA, JOHN SERRANO, ROLANDO CARANTO, ROLFE PADULA, JAIME GAYIS JR., RHEA GUAVA, JOHN DWIGHT GUAVA, JEROME ACASIO, MELANIE MIRANDA, ROSALINA B. CARANTO, CRISANTA BALUYOT, MIKE MANAGUILE, JOVEN TRINIDAD, EVELYN TRINIDAD, RODERICK GODAY, AIMEE BAYSAC, RAQUEL CAMADO, JOHN FRANCIS LALIS, ISAGANI LALIS, LEA LALIS, VERLIN BORAHO, RONNIE PERDIGONES, ORLANDO PERDIGONES, RICHARD CAMADO, GREGORIO D. MISA, RICAHRD R. MODRIGO, GREGORIO DEREANAY, JANEN YBONAN, JONALYN YLANAN, AMELIA VILLAMOR, IRA GODOY, TERESSA CASTRO, ROSELA CASTRO, ANNIE CORPUZ, NICK CORPUZ, BONG ABALOS, ARLENE TRINIDAD, JOLABER MANALGIT, QUAN SOGA, LEONILA LUIS, LYRA CASTRO, FIDELA HABAS, VANESSA CORREA, MARIEL HABAS, MARILA HABAS, MYLENE CASTRO, SOLIDAD CASTRO, DONNA MYLENE FERRER, RODOLFO PERDEGONIS, EMILIO L. OBISRO, MUO OBISTRO, MARITES R. MARTINEZ, ARLENE B. GUARA, VILLAMOR HABAS, GENEVA MANAYILA, VROLIDA MANARILA, CLARISSA BRAGAIS, RUBY CASTRO, ROELL TESADO, ROSE ANNE TESADO, REYNALDO CAMADO, RONELL CAMADO, NORMA R. GUAVA, LEODORA J. CORPUZ, GERERA R. RODRIGO, ROWENA C. TESADO, HERITA CAMADO, ERLINDA S. TRINIDAD, VICQILIO D. TRINIDAD, DHALYN BAYSAC, CRISAIN M. BONARO, NORIEL J. CORPUZ, WELMAR C. BRAGAIS AND CRISPIER B. GUARA ALSO SIGNED THEIR NAMES,” IT IS STATED IN THE SAID LETTER – REQUEST ADDRESSED TO “KOKO” PIMENTEL.

“THAT ‘THE CONTINUOUS AND SUSTAINED CONDEMNATION ON THIS TRAGEDY AND OUR MOST ARDENT CALL AND CRY TO THE SENATE TO UNDERTAKE SOONEST THE APPROPRIATE AND NEEDED IMPARTIAL, CONCRETE AND COMPREHENSIVE INQUIRY,’ IS THE ESSENCE AND SUBSTANCE OF THE CONTENT OF OUR SAID MANIFESTO,” ACCORDING TO THE SAME LETTER – REQUEST.

 

“THIS IS TOO EMPHASIZE AND REITERATE, ACCORDING TO OUR DULY SIGNED MANIFESTO AND BASED ON THE COMPLAINTS AND ACCOUNTS OF US, THE WITNESSES AND VICTIMS - RESIDENTS OURSELVES,” THEY CONTINUE TO REVEAL.

 

“THIS IS OUR NARRATION: THAT ‘ON JUNE 24 OF LAST YEAR, THE "ORDER" DATED 12 FEBRUARY 2016 WHICH WAS THEN ISSUED BY DARAB, DINALUPIHAN, (BATAAN) PROV'L. ADJUDICATOR YU AND THE LETTER DATED 29 FEBRUARY 2016 WHICH WAS ADDRESSED TO ISRAEL LALIS, CRISPIN GUARA, ROMEO DE VERA AT VILLAMOR HABACA (WHO ARE ALL RESIDENTS OF SITIO GANTUAN, BRGY. NAGBALAYONG, MORONG, BATAAN) AND DULY SIGNED BY BATAAN AND ZAMBALES ACTING DARAB SHERIFF GONZALES TO IMPLEMENT THE QUESTIONALBE AND CRUEL ILLEGAL DEMOLITION AT SITIO GANTUAN, BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG, MUNICIPALITY OF MORONG, PROVINCE OF BATAAN,” THE LETTER – REQUEST DISCLOSED.

“BECAUSE THERE WAS NO LEGAL PROCESS IN THE DISMANTLING OF OUR HOMES AND RESIDENCES, SEVERAL PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGBORHOOD GOT SICK AND IN FACT, MRS. SUSAN BRAGAES BECAME GRAVELY ILL AND CONTINUOUSLY WAS BEDRIDDEN AND EVENTUALLY DIED DUE TO SEVERE DEPRESSION BECAUSE SHE LOST THEIR ABODE DURING THE CONDUCT OF THE SAID DEMOLITION,” DIVULGED THE SAME LETTER – REQUEST.

“OUR BELOVED SENATE PRESIDENT KOKO PIMENTEL, WE GREATLY ANTICIPATE AND DEEPLY WE ARE PRAYING THAT YOUR HONOR MAY APPROPRIATELY AND FAVORABLY ACT ON OUR VALID COMPLAINTS,” THESE SITIO GANTUAN WITNESSES AND VICTIMS – RESIDENTS APPEALED TO THE SENATE PRESIDENT.

 

“YOUR HONOR, PLEASE BE FURTHER UPDATED THAT IN A SEPARATE REPORT, IN REFERENCE TO THE LETTER DATED 19 MAY 2017, PRESIDENTIAL COMPLAINTS CENTER (PCC) DIRECTOR IV JAIME LLAGUNO MABILIN HAS INSTRUCTED MORONG TOWN (BATAAN) MAYOR ESTANISLAO TO APPROPRIATELY ACT ON THE LETTER DATED 08 MAY 2017 SENT BY BASG PRES. LALIS TO THE PCC,” THEY MADE KNOWN TO THE PRESENT TOPMOST OFFICIAL OF THE SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES. 

“RELATIVE TO THIS, BASED ON THE MEMORANDUM DATED 27 MAY 2017, DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES (DENR) FIELD OPERATIONS FOR LUZON ASSISTANT SECRETARY ATTY. JUAN MIGUEL T. CUNA HAS DIRECTED THE OFFICER - IN - CHARGE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE DENR - REGION 3 TO CONDUCT THE PROPER INVESTIGATION REGARDING THE LETTER- COMPLAINT, RE: ‘ILLEGAL DEMOLITION AND DISMANTLING OF HOUSES’ WHICH WAS BROUGHT BY BASG,” THESE SAME SITIO GANTUAN WITNESSES AND VICTIMS – RESIDENTS FURTHER MADE PUBLIC.

 

“YOUR HONOR MAY FIND THE HEREIN ATTACHED DOCUMENTS – EVIDENCE PERTAINING TO THIS CONCERN SUCH AS THE “KONDEMNASYON SA ISINAGAWANG DEMOLISYON NOONG JUNE 24, 2016 SA MAY APATNAPUNG (40) KABAHAYAN SA BARANGAY NAGBALAYAONG, MORONG, BATAAN PROVINCE AT PANAWAGANG MAGKAROON NG KAUKULANG IMBESTIGASYON SA NASABING INSIDENTE,” PAANYAYA DATED 10 JULY 2017 ADDRESSED TO TARONAS AND JUAN MIGUEL R. BONDOC ROM MR. RODEL E. FRANCISCO OF PRESIDENTAIL COMMISSION FOR THE URBAN POOR, TRANSFER CERTIFICATE OF TITLE NO. T – 6986, SUBDIVISION PLAN OF LOT 1, MORONG CADASTRE AS SURVEYED BY ANTONIA TOLENTINO LEAÑO, SKETCH/ RELOCATION PLAN OF LOT I, CAD 262, MORONG CADASTRE AS PREPARED BY ANTONIA TOLENTINO LEAÑO, LETTER DATED 19 MAY 2017 ADDRESSED TO MORONG MAYOR CYNTHIA ESTANISLAO FROM DIRECTOR IV JAIME LLAGUNO MABILIN OF PRESIDENTIAL COMPLAINT CENTER, AN LETTER DATED ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT RODRIGO R. DUTERTE FROM ISRAEL LALIS, RE: ILLEGAL DEMOLITION AND DISMANTLING, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT RECEIPT DATED 02 AY 2017 OF CENTRAL OFFICE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES, A SIX (6) – PAGE MOTION TO CLARIFY FILED ON 18 SEPTEMBER 2014 AT THE OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL ADJUDICATOR, DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM AND ADJUDICATION BOARD (DINALUPIHAN, BATAAN), A SEVEN (7) – PAGE ORDER DATED 12 FEBRUARY 2016 ISSUED BY PROVINCIAL ADJUDICATOR ROBERT ANTHONY P. YU  OF THE OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL ADJUDICATOR, DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM AND ADJUDICATION BOARD (DINALUPIHAN, BATAAN), A NOTICE DATED 29 FEBRUARY 2016 ADDRESSED TO MR. ISRAEL LALIS AND COMPANY FROM ACTING DARAB SHERIFF EDCEL T. GONZALES OF THE OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL ADJUDICATOR, DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM AND ADJUDICATION BOARD (DINALUPIHAN, BATAAN), A SEVEN (7) – PAGE ORDER DATED 12 FEBRUARY 2016 ISSUEC BY ROBERT ANTHONY P. YU OF THE OFFICE OF THE PROVINCIAL ADJUDICATOR, DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM AND ADJUDICATION BOARD (DINALUPIHAN, BATAAN), INDORSEMENT DATED 04 MAY 2017 ADDRESSED FOR THE PROVINCIAL AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM OFFICER FROM LUZ J. PEREZ OF DAR WITH ATTACHMENTS AND OTHER RELATED  PAPERS,” THEY INFORMED THE SON OF THE LEGENDARY AND ORIGINAL AQUILINO ‘NENE’ QUILINGING PIMENTEL, JR., THE FATHER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES.

 

“PRAYING AND HIGHLY EXPECTING YOUR HONOR MAY CONDUCT THE APPROPRIATE SENATE PROBE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE!,” THESE SITIO GANTUAN WITNESSES AND VICTIMS – RESIDENTS CONCLUDED THEIR LETTER – REQUEST.

 

“FOR AND IN BEHALF OF THE RESIDENTS OF SITIO GANTUAN, BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG, MORONG, BATAAN PROVINCE,” THE SAID LETTER – REQUEST IS DULY SIGNED BY DANILO A. SAUCE, THE “CHAIRMAN” OF “BARANGAY MASAGANA” (SITIO MARUKDOK, SAMPALOC, GANTUAN AND NAGBALAYONG) AND  ISRAEL L. LALIS, THE PRESIDENT OF BUKLOD ASSOCIATION OF SITIO GANTUAN (BASG), BARANGAY NAGBALAYONG, MUNCIPALITY OF MORONG, BATAAN PROVINCE.