Governor Eugenio Jose “Bong” Lacson turned 61 years old yesterday, and on Saturday, before a crowd of devotees of Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Valladolid town, he cried as he shared his prayer of wishing freedom for siblings Roy, Emily, Celina, and Ricky Yanson.
“Nangamuyo ako kay Lady of Guadalupe nga tani mahatagan na sang kahilway ang apat ka mag-utod…si Roy, Emily, Celina and Ricky…and duwa ka bata ni Emily na si Ina kag si Ica ang ila upod nga si Judy – kag tani updan nyo ako sa pagpangamuyo nga ang ginakuha nga pag apelar nila maresolbar sa 2021 (I prayed before the Lady of Guadalupe to help free the four siblings Roy, Emily, Celina and Ricky…Emily’s daughters Ica and Ina and their companion Judy…and I hope you will pray with me that the appeal they submitted will be resolved in 2021),” the governor emotionally shared.
“Grabe na gid ang pag-antus nga ginatubang nila (They have been enduring too much sufferings),” Lacson added as he cried from the pulpit inside the church where he was invited to speak and address the people.
Lacson said that for 13 years, he have been visiting the church and attending the fiesta mass with Emily, but this year he went solo, citing the Yanson family feud that isolated the Yanson 4 from their two other siblings, Ginette and Leo Rey, and their mother, Olivia.
Roy, Emily, Celina and Ricky Jr., along with Emily’s twin daughters Jerica and Jerina Ramos, and Judy Alcala, were issued arrest warrants back in May this year by the Municipal Trial Court Branch 7 in Bacolod City for grave coercion charges.
The warrants, however, are yet to be served after the Yanson 4 failed to return to the country from a trip abroad due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
The four Yanson siblings got a reprieve in November when the Department of Justice dismissed the qualified theft, perjury and falsification cases lodged against them by their mother.
Acting Bacolod City Prosecutor Jayvee Laurence Bandong also dismissed in November the perjury complaint against the Yanson 4.
In July, the DOJ also junked the carnapping charges against the four siblings for insufficient evidence. – NAB
