Capitols help sought on lot

OFFICIALS from the Cebu City Prosecutors Office requested the Cebu Provincial Government to help them acquire a lot for the construction of their new building.

Assistant Prosecutor Aida Sanchez, along with other city prosecutors, visited yesterday Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III at the Capitol and told him that the Department of Justice has set aside funds for the construction of their office building.

After the Chief Justice Marcelo Fernan Hall of Justice was damaged by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake last year, prosecutors and other personnel of the Office of the Regional State Prosecutor and Cebu Provincial Prosecutors Office have stayed at the Taft Commercial Center in Osmea Blvd., Cebu City.

The Cebu City prosecutors decided to remain on the ground floor while transactions are in tents placed outside the building.

Desire

Earlier, Cebu Provincial Prosecutor Pepita Jane Petralba also expressed his desire to meet the governor to request for a lot for the construction of the DOJ building that will house the offices of the regional, municipal and city prosecutors.

What I understand from the governor is he is willing to give us the usufruct of a particular land for the DOJ to build the building, but what we prefer, particularly the Cebu City Prosecutors office, is to stay there at our area, Sanchez said in an interview.

She said they can ask the DOJ for a budget for the repair of the upper floors for the other attached agencies.

Extension

Davide, earlier, expressed the intention of the Province to Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno to use the condemned Hall of Justice as Capitol extension.

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Capitols help sought on lot