Locals in Dapitan ask how the owner of the lot where the diggings are conducted was able to acquire a title of the land when Ilihan is supposed to be a heritage site
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“Ilihan is one of our heritage sites. Remnants of the El Fuerte de Dapitan still remain on that hill and we have been preserving the old cannons used to defend it,” Mayor Seth Frederick Jalosjos told Rappler on Saturday, March 16. Carreon also asked how Geracleo Jatico Jr., owner of the lot where the diggings are conducted, was able to acquire a title of the land when Ilihan is supposed to be a heritage site and a military reservation.
Chairman Clifford Hamoy of Barangay Potol – one of the two villages where Ilihan is located – doubts the diggings are merely for treasure hunting. But Jatico, who already has an existing house nearby, insisted he is just building a house where the tunnel is his bedroom.Jatico’s parents were known treasure hunters. In the 1970s, they were able to dig up a dozen of small “tibud” at the opposite side of Ilihan, and sold it to buy a balloon tire bicycle.The foot of Ilihan was used as a burial ground. It was a practice of early Dapitanons, either Subanens or Bol-anons, to bury “treasures” with their dead.
Citing the chronicles of Jesuit missionary Francisco Combes in the 17th century, Luspo said what was then the Kedatuan of Dapitan led by brothers Pagbuaya and Dailisan got into a war with the Kingdom of Ternate in Indonesia.
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