NAMES of Mayor Roy Macanlalay of Calasiao and other prominent personalities were initially identified as among the prominent people who allegedly built structures illegally in the beach area of Bonuan Binloc.

Barangay Captain Ronaldo Torio, in an interview with The PUNCH, identified Macanlalay as the allege downer of a fenced area with a steel gate in the beach, approximately 1,000 square meters in area.

However, the name of Mayor Macanlalay did not appear in the list of claimants whose Tax Declarations were sought to be cancelled through an executive order issued by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr.

The information was corroborated by Bonuan Binloc Councilman Julius Alcaide who is working closely with Torio in identifying all the squatters who have claimed ownership of parcels of the beach area.

Torio was authorized by the Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement to establish the identity of the owners of the illegally-constructed structures in the beach area.

Then former City Councilor Rodolfo Fernandez unexpectedly came forward and identified himself as one of the applicants for ownership of public lands in Bonuan Binloc, being a member of the Bonuan Binloc Neighborhood Association, during the meeting Friday of the Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement at Bonuan Binloc Barangay Hall.

Torio said he did not recall Fernandez as one among the claimants. Alcaide, a Sangguniang Kabataan chairman and newly elected Kagawad of Bonuan Binloc six years ago, first exposed the massive selling of racket of lots in the beach area through the PUNCH.

“We still have not identified them all, as you know I am just one-month and 25 days in office. We are still groping in the dark as to the identity of the others,” Torio said in Filipino.

He, however, vowed to find out and get to the bottom of the racketeering in the beach area of Bonuan Binloc.

Asked to confirm the report that the beach squatters are rich people, Torio said, “Sinabi n’yo pa. Only they can build such structures in the beach.”

Torio and Alcaide said Macanlalay’s alleged structures are fronting the area being claimed by Mario Sandoval, owner of Goring’s Pancit Malabon.

Sandoval’s and spouse Edelmida Escano’s names were among the first whose tax declarations were cancelled by the City Assessor’s Office.–LM

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