However, its plan to use it as extension of the bus terminal to decongest the facility and to serve the commuters of the southern part of the Province has not been realized.
Provincial Treasurer Roy Salubre said they still have to develop the place, which would soon be occupied by the mini buses using the South Bus Terminal.
But the development of the area has been stopped because the engineering department is still very busy attending to other matters, like helping in the construction of the Cebu International Convention Center which will be used for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit next week.
Capitol also plans to put up a farmer’s market in the place.
When the area was hit by a blaze in December last year, Capitol immediately fenced the place.
Some of the residents tried to rebuild structures inside but were demolished. In fact, the demolition became violent that Salubre was hit with a chamber pot full of urine on his head.
Others, however, opted to just move to their relocation site in Barangay Kalunasan. Those who resisted lost their chance to get a lot in the relocation site.
The residents were promised that the lot will be sold to them during the time of then governor Emilio Osmeña.
But they were ordered to vacate the place and be relocated to Barangay Kalunasan during the stint of former governor Pablo Garcia.
In April this year, Municipal Trial Court in Cities Executive Judge Francisco Seville ruled in favor of the Cebu Provincial Government and ordered occupants to vacate the site and demolish all structures that they made after the fire last year.
Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia was bent on repossessing the lot saying she has responsibility to her constituents.
She also said that she “will not give up the greater good for the greater majority for this very selfish few who absolutely have no right over that property.” (MBG)
