This document is an affidavit from two Philippine National Police (PNP) officers describing an incident where they responded to a report of a disturbance caused by a man named Enetiquio O. Navarette. When they arrived, Navarette was cutting trees in a public green space belonging to the municipality. When confronted, Navarette refused to stop and brandished a bolo at the officers. The officers wrestled the bolo away from Navarette. The affidavit asserts that Navarette is an illegal squatter with no valid land rights and has previously sold portions of public land illegally. The officers are seeking to charge Navarette with direct assault on authorities.
This document is an affidavit from two Philippine National Police (PNP) officers describing an incident where they responded to a report of a disturbance caused by a man named Enetiquio O. Navarette. When they arrived, Navarette was cutting trees in a public green space belonging to the municipality. When confronted, Navarette refused to stop and brandished a bolo at the officers. The officers wrestled the bolo away from Navarette. The affidavit asserts that Navarette is an illegal squatter with no valid land rights and has previously sold portions of public land illegally. The officers are seeking to charge Navarette with direct assault on authorities.
This document is an affidavit from two Philippine National Police (PNP) officers describing an incident where they responded to a report of a disturbance caused by a man named Enetiquio O. Navarette. When they arrived, Navarette was cutting trees in a public green space belonging to the municipality. When confronted, Navarette refused to stop and brandished a bolo at the officers. The officers wrestled the bolo away from Navarette. The affidavit asserts that Navarette is an illegal squatter with no valid land rights and has previously sold portions of public land illegally. The officers are seeking to charge Navarette with direct assault on authorities.
Municipality of Ramon ) X-------------------------------X
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT WITH QUIT CLAIM
AND WAIVER OF RIGHTS
WE, SP03 ROMMEL P. ACACIO and PO3 JOEL J.
CASTILLO, of legal age, Filipinos, and with business and postal address at the Philippine National Police (PNP) Ramon, Police Station, Ramon, Isabela after having been duly sworn to in accordance with law, hereby depose and say, that:
1. We are the very same persons executing this affidavit;
2. We are members of the PNP of good standing of PNP Ramon Police
Station, Ramon, Isabela;
3. Last September 24, 2018 in the early morning while we were
attending our regular and usual flag ceremony, I SP03 Rommel P. Acacio received a cellphone call from our Chief of Police (COP) with his instruction to proceed at Barangay General Aguinaldo as reported there was a person creating a disturbance who entered a portion of the greening program of LGU, Ramon, Isabela and serve as escorts of the Local Chief Executive of this municipality;
4. We arrived in the area with the presence of Barangay Captain
Ernesto V. Ruiz, Jr., his two (2) tanods and some other persons and persons inside the greening program of the LGU of Ramon, Isabela later on identified as Enetiquio O. Navarette with his two (2) companions clearing and cutting not fully grown trees in which said site is just adjacent the road going to Magat High Dam and the Old Alfonso Lista Bridge strategically located at an intersection;
5. At this point, The Chief Executive and the Barangay Captain
(Mayor Jesus D. Laddaran & Barangay Captain Ernesto V. Ruiz, Jr.) conferred on how to approach Navarette but he stubbornly refused to stop and advanced in Ilocano dialect “ADDA PAPEL KO AWAN MAKALAPPED KANYAK” (I have papers no one can stop me); 6. With the Mayor in his few distance away, this time Enetiquio O. Navarette in his confused struggle brandishing his bolo, being uncooperative prompting us to grappled and grabbed the bolo which was wrested from Navarette under pains of strenuous efforts;
7. To bolster of the foregoing, we respectfully attached the following:
a.) Affidavit of Barangay Captain Ernesto V. Ruiz, Jr., as ANNEX “A”; b.) Magkasamang Sinumpaang Salaysay of Barangay Tanods Agustin M. Telan and Eliseo Agyatan as ANNEX “B”; and many more who are going to testify of the assault made by Enetiquio O. Navarette;
8. Enetiquio O. Navarette is an illegal settler and intruding a land of
the public domain in which the portion encroached is a part of the National Greening Program (NGP) of Local Government Unit of Ramon, Isabela as shown in the following: a.) Memorandum of Agreement between the LGU of Ramon, Isabela and the DENR-CENRO as ANNEX “C”; b.) Letter of Award by the DENR-CENRO to LGU Ramon, Isabela as ANNEX “D”; c.) Notice to proceed issued by the DENR-CENRO to LGU Ramon, Isabela as ANNEX “E”; d.) Certification issued by the DENR-CENRO that LGU Ramon, Isabela as partner agency as ANNEX “F”;
9. Although and according to respondent Navarette that he was a
holder of Memorandum of Agreement and or Stewardship from DENR-CENRO is highly irregular and casts doubt considering that a certification from the Record Office of the DENR-CENRO of San Isidro, Isabela that they have no record as evidenced by a certification hereto attached as ANNEX “G”;
10. That respondent Navarette is an illegal settler and or squatter, that
even his house is erected on a land of public domain as certified by the Municipal Assessor of Ramon, Isabela hereto attached as ANNEX “H”; 11. Records as herein attached will show that on several occasions in the past Mr. Navarette was able to disposed properties via private documents in spite of the fact that he does not have even any single property declared for tax purposes in his name. He made it a habit to occupy lands of the public domain and later on clear the forested areas and offered the same for money. Respondent for several times has made the disposition of the following land of the public domain for personal satisfaction, to wit: a. Waiver of rights in favor of Hannibal Bello involving 4,000 square meters being a portion of a parcel of land with an area of 1.0350 hectares; b. Amicable settlement and Waiver of Rights showing payment of a parcel of land in favor of Warlito Domingo; c. Waiver of Rights executed by Enetiquio Navarette in favor of Analiza B. Valdez d. Waiver of Rights in favor of Barbara Ganer and Rolando Viado; e. Waiver of Rights in favor of Severino Hael and Magdalena Hael; f. Sinumpaang Salaysay of Marie Jane Castillo Saet as ANNEXES “I”, “J”, “K”, “L”, “M” and “N”;
12. Enetiquio O. Navarette employing force with serious
intimidation and/or seriously resists a person in authority who at that time were engaged in the performance of official duties or on the occasion thereof, thus he is liable for DIRECT ASSAULT defined and penalized under Article 148 of the Revised Penal Code;
13. Respondent could be served with subpoena and other
processes at:
ENETIQUIO ORENA NAVARETTE
Purok 06, Barangay General Aguinaldo, Ramon, Isabela IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands this ___th day of January 2019 at Santiago City.
SP03 ROMMEL P. ACACIO P03 JOEL J. CASTILLO
Affiant Affiant ID No. ID No.
SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this ____th day of
January 2019 at Santiago City.
CERTIFICATION
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have personally examined the affiants
and that I am fully satisfied that they voluntarily executed and understood the contents of their affidavit.