Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia has reiterated her call for the return of the “stolen” panels from the pulpit of the Boljoon church, which she considered “part of the Cebuano heritage.”
The Municipality of Daanbantayan in northern Cebu has planned to put up a museum to house all the human remains and historical artifacts recovered and use it as one of their tourist attraction sites.
SunStar It was the timing that rankled many.
Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go could have shared Abrahan Ibarani-Idjirani’s study on Philippine history that Lapulapu was not a Mactan chief but a Tausug warrior sent to Cebu to monitor the presence of foreigners on any other occasion and it might have invited intellectual discourse, not public condemnation of historical revisionism.
But Go chose to drop the bombshell during the quincentennial celebration of when Lapulapu reportedly killed Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan on the site where it reportedly happened in the city named after the chieftain.
Tactless? Perhaps.