THE MATRIARCH BEHIND one of the most entrenched business empires in the country may have been forced to bow out of politics following a dismal loss to a lesser-known opponent, but that doesn’t make her camera-shy in any way.
In a recent Facebook post, former Senator Cynthia Villar got herself entangled (again) in an issue that has been haunting her family for the longest time — landgrabbing.
“Umalingawngaw ang isyu ng umano’y land grabbing matapos idawit si Cynthia Villar kaugnay ng lupang matagal nang sinasaka ng pamilya Alonzo,” reads a post on the wall of One Cavite Facebook page.
ALONZO FARMLAND
The social media rant, which has generated thousands of comments, reactions and shares, embarks on land grabbing allegedly perpetrated by the former senator over farmland supposedly owned by the Alonzo family in Bacoor, Cavite.
According to the Alonzo family, Villar usurped their property — “just like what they did in the cities of Las Pinas and Paranaque.
A similar post by Bilyonaryo Agenda program on X (formerly Twitter) is also being shared and retwitted also on the landgrabbing by Cynthia Villar over the Alonzo family farmland, with some users telling their similar woeful tales.
The supposed victims told Bilyonaryo News Channel that they had been tilling the 2.6 hectare farmland in Barangay Linos 6 in Bacoor, Cavite for several decades only to find out that they have become “squatters” in their own land after Cythia Villar reportedly bought the property.
HOSTILE VISITOR
“We are probably the last people to be informed of the sale… and to think we own the land,” said a family member in reference to barangay men accompanying the former senator.
According to him, he even greeted Cynthia Villar only to be asked to evacuate their property as “binili ko na ito, alis kayo” by the former full-termer senator, who ran and lost against a “nobody” for Las Pinas City’s lone congressional district.
He then showed a transfer certificate of title (that was almost yellowish in color) to the property to Bilyonaryo News as he asked “paano itong mga titulo at dokumento namin?”
The Alonzo male family member then said they have been farming the land since 1968.
“Nung nabubuhay pa yung tatay ko tatlong beses pa namin sinasaka yan kada taon kasi may buhay na irigasyon po yan. Ngayon wala na rin at sinaran na ang irigasyon kasi ginawa ng River Drive na kalsada.”
INSATIABLE GREED
The news anchor, Korina Sanchez-Roxas said the land grabbing activities in Barangay Linos began in 2023.
Several netizens lambasted the family for using their positions to amass properties and wealth by force at the expense of the small people, who have very little in life compared to what was described as insatiable greed of the Villars.
Some went on to categorically accuse the Villars of illegally acquiring properties not just in Cavite and Las Pinas but throughout the country, especially in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Several netizens advised readers to dump the Villars in 2028 otherwise there would be no end to their aggrandizement.