Pablicos have a word of honor — Ex-mayor Fernandez
FORMER Mayor Belen Fernandez vouched for the Pablico family‘s “word of honor” when it donated a 7,000 square meter property to the Dagupan City government and six informal settler families during her administration.
Fernandez dismissed as fake news the report being peddled by a radio station that the land donated to the informal settlers was mortgaged by the family and was already foreclosed by a bank.
Fernandez, in a talk over Kabaleyan (K-17) channel on USATV, confirmed the statement of lawyer Frank Angeles that the Pablicos promised to donate 7,000 square meters of their property to the city government and the informal settlers as early as 2004 was good faith and out of sheer generosity.
She said it was during a pre-demolition conference attended by Fernandez and officials of the National Urban Poor Commission when the Pablico patriarch announced his intention to donate 7,000 sq. meters to the city government, out of which the six families would have 75 sq.m. each.
The Pablicos’s lawyer, Angeles, recently told the Sangguniang Panlungsod that the family owns a 50,000 square meter (five hectares) land in Pugaro, which they bought from the Philippine National Bank (PNB) in 2003.
He said there were a number of informal settlers in the area who filed cases for legal redemption against the Pablicos but all cases were dismissed by the court, except one which was a case seeking nullification of the deed of sale of the property filed by Michael Caridad and five others.
Angeles appeared before the Sangguniang Panlungsod last week to assure the city government that the donated 7,000 square meters are not part of the properties they mortgaged with Land Bank.
Fernandez said that even when Pablico patriarch died in 2016, Pablico matriarch came to Dagupan City to present the deed of donation signed by her and her children.
She said it is now up to the new city administration to work for the final transfer of the 7,000 square meters donated land in the name of the city, saying she already did her part.
Angeles said he will submit the approved subdivision plan from the Land Registration Authority (LRA) of the 7,000 property in January 2020. (Leonardo Micua)
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