Confrontation video of Carcar City mayor ‘goes viral’

CARCAR City Mayor Nicepuro Apura is being accused of harassing a family over a property dispute.

Marlene Cantiberos Entienza, a public school teacher, said she plans to file criminal and administrative cases against Apura before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas.

Apura allegedly ordered Entienza to vacate a 3,282-square-meter property owned by her father in Sitio Lamakan, Barangay Valladolid last week, and told her to relocate to a neighboring sitio.

The disputed properties are a few meters from the New Carcar City Hall.

“Dili ko mosugot kay amo man ni, bisan unsaon amo gyud ni (I refuse to leave because this is our property),” Entienza said, in a press conference yesterday.

Apura, in a statement, said he acquired the properties from Entienza’s relatives last year. But he didn’t acquire the property owned by Ernesto Cantiberos, Entienza’s late father.

The mayor said that Entienza and her family were the ones who harassed him when he went to the area to assert his claim on the property.

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“I felt harassed because in spite of being the rightful new owner of the lot, they were the one who threw insults at me and even took a video of me without my consent,” Apura said, in his statement.

In an interview yesterday, Entienza told reporters that her late father bought the property from his siblings for P150,000 in 2014. She showed reporters the waiver of rights signed by Ernesto’s siblings, proving that he owns the property.

But she said that her father’s siblings didn’t inform them that they also sold the property to Apura for P1.2 million.

Last Thursday, Apura and some men arrived at the property and started to cut trees: 15 chicos, one macopa and a nangka.

Entienza immediately went to the area to confront Apura. Their confrontation was caught on video and posted on Facebook.

The more than two-minute long video has been shared 3,000 times and has been viewed 96,000 times, as of yesterday.

In the video, Apura told Entienza that the property is rightfully his.

“Ako ning yuta, ako ning kahoy. Dili tanan pagputol og kahoy kailangan magkuha og court order (This is my property, these are my trees. Not every cutting of tree requires a court order),” Apura said in the video.