Court may consider postponing Oro demolition

A CITY Government official is optimistic that the court will rule on the motion it filed in favor of the residents in barangays Puntod and Macabalan who are facing the prospect of being displaced from their homes due to a demolition order that is supposed to be executed today.

Teddy Sabugaa, City Social Welfare and Development (CSWD) chief, said that based on his recent conversation with Judge Arthur Abundiente, the presiding judge of Regional Trial Courts Branch 25, he believes the latter will give weight on the motion to extend the date of the demolition.

He was very open to the City Governments request. Committed siya, he told Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro by phone Tuesday, referring to the motion filed by City Hall to have the demolition be deferred at a later time.

Humanitarian reason

He said Abundiente has considered City Halls motion for humanitarian reason.

Sabugaa acted as the representative of Mayor Oscar Moreno, while lawyer Edgar Cabanlas is the legal counsel for the City Government.

In a previous interview with Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro, Cabanlas said the motion City Hall filed last Friday, on behalf of the would-be dislocated residents, was for the court to consider on the students who will be affected if the demolition would be executed during school days.

Cabanlas said Moreno has requested the Court 90 days extension or during the summer vacation when the children are off from school.

The three-month period would give the City Government enough time to scout relocation for the dozens of families that will eventually be displaced when the demolition is executed.

It can be recalled that on January 23, hundreds of members of Cagayan Integrated Landless Residents Association Incorporated (Cilrai) staged a protest rally at the National Housing Authority (NHA)-Northern Mindanao in Barangay Puntod to ask for the agencys intervention that could delay the demolition.

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Court may consider postponing Oro demolition