{"id":53590,"date":"2015-06-29T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T10:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53590"},"modified":"2015-06-29T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T10:39:44","slug":"catapang-ready-to-face-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/29\/catapang-ready-to-face-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Catapang ready to face suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41755\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pio-catapang-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1424104617931.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41755\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pio-catapang-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1424104617931-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"AFP Chief-of-Staff Gregorio Pio Catapang at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (Photo courtesy of Sen. Grace Poe's Facebook page)\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pio-catapang-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1424104617931-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pio-catapang-mamasapano-clash-senate-hearing-e1424104617931.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFP Chief-of-Staff Gregorio Pio Catapang at the Senate hearing on the Mamasapano clash (Photo courtesy of Sen. Grace Poe&#8217;s Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Armed Forces chief Gen. Gregorio Catapang Jr. is ready to face a class suit for forcible entry filed by about 200 farmers against him.<\/p>\n<p>Catapang allegedly evicted the farmers from a\u00a0200-hectare land in a military reservation in Nueva Ecija two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces public affairs chief Lt. Col. Harold Cabunoc yesterday said that the AFP chief is ready to fight for the soldiers who will benefit from the said land.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Catapang is ready to sacrifice his retirement benefits just to fight for the AFP and the soldiers who will benefit from the off-base housing facilities to be put up on the said land,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Also facing the same civil suit are\u00a0Lieutenant Colonels Benito Doniego Jr. and Alfredo Patarata.<\/p>\n<p>Both officials were ordered by Catapang to enter the said lands and inform the farmers that they will be evicted from the land.<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners already filed the case at the Municipal Trial Court in 2013 and the court ruled in favor of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Armed Forces chief Gen. Gregorio Catapang Jr. is ready to face a class suit for forcible entry filed &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}