SAGNEB

        During the Japanese regime, locals used to wander from one place to another in plight of, and to evade, the brutality of Japanese soldiers, until they discovered this secluded, remote and isolated place that they decided to reside therein.  Resettlement rapidly grew as habitation was not a problem because of two (2) water springs source that produce plenty of local shells (mollusc) such as ‘doriken’, ‘bisokol’, ‘birabid’ (variety of edible snails), clams, weeds and other types of inland river fishes. 

        One day, Japanese soldiers patrolled the area and asked the folks the name of the place where one local mistakenly misunderstood that he was being asked –what brought him there- so, he replied: ‘agneb’ alluding to a hiding place where the soil is always moist or damp due to the presence of water springs. From then on, the place was called as ‘sagneb’ connoting a suitable agricultural area very conducive to farming due to the bounty of the natural water spring.