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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Darza says City should not compensate Ting for SRP lot
By Gingging A. Campaña
Sun.Star Staff Reporte
If an agreement is proven valid, the office tasked to implement the South Reclamation Project (SRP) in 1998 had agreed to replace a businessman’s property with another land just adjacent to his in the then municipality of Talisay.
Sun.Star Cebu got hold of a copy of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) entered into on Sept. 7, 1998 by Samuel B. Darza
of the Project Coordinating and Monitoring Office (PCMO) of the Metro Cebu Development Project (MCDP) 3 and Roque P. Ting, a businessman.
Parties to that MOA had agreed that MCDP 3 PCM shall demolish improvements and structures owned by Ting within 15 days from the signing of the MOA.
According to the MOA, all these had to be enforced to give way to the development of the SRP at that time.
Samuel B. Darza, representing the Republic of the Philippines, signed the MOA as the first contracting party in his capacity as MCDP 3 PCMO project director.
Ting and his wife Fatima, residents of P. Remedio St. Banilad, Mandaue City, signed as the second contracting party.
Also, then Talisay municipal mayor Socrates Fernandez and one Teodoro Carvajal signed the MOA as witnesses.
The same agreement was also notarized by then Cebu City Hall consultant on legislative affairs Rico Tautho in his capacity as a notary public.
But according to Ting, after almost seven years since the parties signed the MOA, the second party, except for demolishing the structures and other improvements, still has to comply with its obligations, particularly the agreed replacement.
Ting’s 4,222-square-meter property is now the subject of the Cebu City Council’s examination following the executive department’s efforts to have the lot titled under Cebu City’s name, as it falls within the 295-hectare SRP.
Mayor Tomas Osmeña wanted to buy for P9 million Ting’s property, which has been titled in 1994, so Talisay City will no longer have a reason to claim that the SRP is encroaching on its territory.
But Darza said the City of Cebu should not compensate Ting and contested the businessman’s claim that his 1.2-hectare property was all land before the MCDP began the SRP in 1998.
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