Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Capitol to file suit to recover 1.9-hectare lot occupied by Tesda
CAPITOL yesterday announced its plan to file a suit to recover the 1.9-hectare lot being occupied by the Technical Education Skills Authority (Tesda) in Central Visayas in Barangay Lahug, Cebu City.
“We will be filing a case for ejectment against NMYC (National Manpower and Youth Council),” Capitol information consultant lawyer Rory Jon Sepulveda said yesterday.
Tesda 7 has been occupying an area owned by the Provincial Government.
The deed of donation did not speak of Tesda, and was specific that the property automatically reverts to the Province in the event that NMYC is abolished, with no mention of NMYC’s successors in interest.
Tesda Director General Augusto Syjuco, however, insisted that their regional office could not be relocated since it is currently holding the deed of donation.
“As the succeeding entity of the donee…Tesda has acquired all rights and interest of NMYC, as full owner, of the donated land,” Syjuco said in his letter to Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia last July 29.
‘More logical’
“A donation of suitable substitute land and facilities in favor of Tesda may, therefore, be a more logical approach,” he said.
Syjuco also said he heard reports that Tesda premises are being considered “for takeover so that it can serve, in whole or in part, as a casino.”
That statement irked Garcia. Sepulveda confirmed yesterday that the governor signed the ejectment case against Tesda and that it will be filed within this week.
Sepulveda said the filing of the case supersedes earlier plans to replicate the agency and to find out who is the lawful owner of the property.
The provincial government is determined to recover lot 195, which according to the Capitol consultant, is covered by the Transfer Certificate of Title under the province’s name.
“(This is) part of the total process of the provincial government to take care of and recover its property,” said Sepulveda.
Title
Sepulveda said the title of the property is still under the name of the Province and that the deed of donation to NMYC constitutes that “the moment it is no longer used (by NMYC), it reverts back to the Province.”
Once they recover the property, Sepulveda said it becomes the Capitol’s commercial asset and that the provincial government would transform it into “revenue-generating” asset.
He said that they would make sure that provincial properties are properly “safeguarded.” (GMD)
