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FOLLOWING Governor Ito’s advice, I lodged a complaint with the Antipolo City Prosecutor’s Office of forcible entry against the armed intruders. It was very clear from the joint Sinumpaang Salaysay executed by my wife and myself that what we were complaining about was the forcible takeover of our property by these armed groups. I don’t know what happened but when the fiscal filed the information at the Antipolo City Municipal Trial Court for Cities, instead of the forcible takeover of our land being the subject of our criminal complaint, what was stated as grabbed by them was our house. So, each time the judge intervened with clarificatory questions to my sons and me during the trial as to whether we were prevented from coming in and out of our house, we answered no. And on that basis, the judge ruled that there was no forcible entry committed — on that basis, the judge finally paved the way for the landgrabbers to take over our property for keeps.
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