Three kagawads of Barangay Alangilan, Bacolod City are seeking the immediate halt to the construction activities being undertaken at Metro Safari Resort within 24 hours.

This was after the company was denied a favorable endorsement by the barangay for its failure to secure a conversion order from the Department of Agrarian Reform, among them.

In their letter dated Dec. 16 to the resort owner Francis Rey Cabuga Eddie Hechanova,  Teddy and Ma. Lucia Lizares and Bonifacio Cahilig, Jr., Alangilan Kagawads Donard Alimpolo, Alex Sausi and Roy Retiza, said the construction had already been issued a notice of violation by the Office of the Building Official.

Despite such notice, and a resolution of the Bacolod City Council for them to stop the construction, the company simply ignored them and also disregarded their barangay resolution, and even that of the OBO, and the City Council, they said.

“We would like to remind you that your continued act of defying the order by continuously doing construction activities without the benefit of a building permit is a violation of Presidential Decree No. 1096, Section 301,” the kagawads said.

They also cited Section 213, which provides that "Any person, firm or corporation who will violate any of the provisions of the Code and/or commit any act declared to be unlawful will upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than P20,000 or imprisonment of not more than two years or both such fine and imprisonment.”

CRIMINAL COMPLAINT MULLED

The kagawads said that in order to protect and preserve the integrity of the barangay that had denied the request for endorsement of the company demanding that Metro Safari Resort refrain from further construction activities at the site within 24 hours from receipt of their letter.

Otherwise, they said, they will be compelled to file a criminal complaint for violation of PD 1096 and the revocation of the licenses of the contractors with the Professional Regulatory Commission and with other concerned government agencies, they said.

At a committee hearing conducted by the Sanggunian Committee on Laws, Ordinances and Good Government Tuesday, Cabuga was also required by concerned agencies to comply with all the required permits before developing the resort.

‘MAYOR ENDORSED IT'

Earlier, however, his legal counsel, Salvador Panelo, said that the Mayor has endorsed the project and at 99 percent of the barangay is in favor of the construction of a zoo, except for the kagawads, whose motives he is questioning.

Panelo claimed that the project is good for the city, otherwise the mayor will not endorse it.*CGS

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