Court drops fisherfolk’s amparo bid
Cebu Daily News
April 11, 2012

“Go home. I won’t harm you. If I’m going to order a hit on someone, he or she would have to be a big fish.”
Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy waved off Cordova fisherfolk in Cebuano minutes before a court dismissed their petition for a writ of amparo yesterday.

The petition would have given them protection from what they claimed was harassment by Mayor Sitoy for their opposition against the town’s 10-hectare reclamation project.

The writ was previously denied in March by Acting Exectuive Judge Teresita Abarquez-Galanida.
During yesterday’s hearing, Mandaue Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Estela Alma Cinco of Branch 55 said that “in view of the denial,” the petition is “closed and terminated.”

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