LRY Recovers VTI main, 15 branches
THE camp of Leo Rey Yanson has fully recovered yesterday the main office of Vallacar Transit, Inc. in Barangay Mansilingan after his three siblings Ricardo, Jr.; Celina Yanson Lopez and Emily Yanson left the main office at about 1:00 p.m. yesterday.
Atty. Norman Golez, Legal Counsel of Leo Rey said that his client is now in full control again of the whole 15 branches of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies and the main office.
Leo Rey personally went to the main office yesterday with his sister Ginnette Yanson Dumancas and their mother Olivia Yanson after the PNP and the CIDG re-installed the AGNSA Security Agency on Friday.
WRIT OF AMPARO Roy Yanson meanwhile has filed yesterday before the Supreme Court a Petition for a Writ of Amparo with Application for the Issuance of a Temporary Protection Order against PNP Chief Oscar Albayalde, CIDG chief Police Major Gen. Amador Corpus, PNP Region 6 Dir. Brig. Gen.rene Pamuspusan, PNP Civil Security Group Chief Major Gen. Reynaldo Biay, SOSIA Chief Pol. Col. Major John Dubria for unlawful detention of Ricardo, Jr., Celina and Emily at the VTI Compound where they were surrounded by about 300 heavily armed policemen. The complaint stated that the lives of the 3 Yanson siblings were threatened by the said respondents acts of intimidation and the presence of armed policemen and that no food and water supplies were allowed inside and the power supply has been cut off.
It also stated that the three siblings being directors and corporate officers of VTI were part of the majority of the Board of Directors who conducted a Special Board Meeting on July 7 and passed a resolution replacing Leo Rey to Roy as the company President.
Golez for his part said that he heard about the filing of the petition and he described it as very farfetched.
“The Writ of Amparo is availed when someone is a victim Extra judicial Killing,
Enforced disappearances, by agents of the state like the police or military and it did not happened here. What they are doing is forum shopping. They have filed two weeks ago a TRO in a court here and also in a court in Quezon City. The PNP are no longer here after we fully recovered the main office,” Golez said.
He said that the police just looked for some weapons kept inside and they recovered some like the pillbox.
Everything will be back to normal today, Golez added.
TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE
Atty Sheila Sison, Legal Council of the Celina, Emily and Ricardo yesterday expressed dismay over the traumatic experience that her clients have endured for the past two days that threatened, intimidated and harassed by their mere presence of an overwhelming number of combined police personnel, SWAT teams, CIDG among others that entered the main compound and office of the Yanson Group of Bus Companies - Vallacar Transit, Inc. in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod City in the wee hours (3 a.m.) of the morning of August 9, 2019.
She said their clients were deprived of their sleep and were traumatized that armed police personnel swooped down to a private property wherein part of the concrete wall of the company’s fence were intentionally destroyed for them to gain entry to a private property.
“My clients have respected the court processes. Remember my clients did not filed the complaint which is now pending at the Regional Trial Court. For us, if they only invoked judicial process, they should respect it and even trust that the court will be able to do its duty to resolve fairly and soundly the issues that they lodged before the Regional Trial Court. And not this one. They filed an injunction and temporary restraining order against my clients and on the other hand, they are doing all these things unnecessary using an overwhelming force. My clients were just here and not doing any alarming acts. There is no cause for the police to enter a private property but they did. The order only covers the reinstatement of the AGNSA security guards. At the Ceres South terminal in Sambok, Lopez Jaena, there were 200 policemen implementing a simple order for a security provider in a terminal or a business where the public are affected. And here at the main Office, they used long firearms, destroyed the concrete wall just to gain entry,” she said.
“What happened really deserves a condemnation. they will exhaust all legal remedies against those who abuse their authority and disregarded due process,” she added.*