‘Alvarado and then incoming governor Fernando failed to produce the titles to the disputed land…’
BULACAN Gov. Daniel Fernando is facing persistent complaints of land-grabbing, harassment and intimidation related to the development of 10 hectares of prime commercial land.
Landowner Lourdes Domingo and her two daughters claimed the provincial government of Bulacan is behind the objectionable activities and denounced the alleged “illegal maneuvering through the provincial police to evict them from their own property.”
Domingo told Bulacan reporters that she will meet with PNP chief Gen. Francisco Marfil to file a formal complaint against the Bulacan PNP for allowing its Special Weapons and Tactics team to be deployed as escorts of a multi-million construction firm in allegedly harassing security guards working for her. Workers of the firm, identified as Big Ben Construction, also allegedly destroyed the concrete highway barriers that are public property.
The Provincial Public Affairs Office has informed media men that “the contested 10-hectare property was the subject of a Public-Private Partnership Agreement between the provincial government and Robinsons Land for a mixed-use cyber park and development project. The deal was reportedly inked during the last term of former governor Willy Sy-Alvarado.”
However, diggings and foundation-laying during the pandemic were halted by then-Mayor Gilbert Gatchalian after the contractor failed to secure a development permit from the city engineer’s office. Alvarado and then incoming governor Fernando failed to produce the titles to the disputed land after they allegedly allowed the initial foundation-laying for the proposed structures of the project.
Fernando, a former movie actor, is not new to controversy. There is every reason for DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos to conduct an inquiry on these issues.
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The government can never address poverty effectively without embracing the Biblical principles on abundance and prosperity. Sadly, it is almost anathema for our national leaders to cultivate and nurture the true spiritual faith, citing the separation of church and state.
In many ways, religion and politics have hindered the much-needed social uplift of the poor and the needy. Only a few in government probably realize that poverty is a “curse” on the people due to their unabated disobedience to God’s commands and statutes, specifically the Ten Commandments.
The following is an inspiring read from Max Lucado’s book “Fearless.”
“We have a shepherd who will get us back on our feet. Like a good shepherd, He will not let us go unclothed or unfed. ‘I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread’ (Psalm 37:25). What a welcome reminder! When homes foreclose or pensions evaporate, we need a shepherd. In Christ we have one. And His good ‘pleasure is to give you the Kingdom.’ Psalm 104 celebrates the lavish creation with twenty-three verses of itemized blessings: the heavens and the earth, the waters and streams and trees and birds and goats and wine and oil and bread and people and lions.
“God is the source of ‘innumerable teeming living things both small and great … These all wait for you, that you may give them their food in due season’ (vv.25, 27).
