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Senator Christopher Lawrence Bong Go
THE senator said in his speech at the Kadaugan sa Maktan celebration last Tuesday, April 27, in Lapu-Lapu City that Lapu-Lapu was a Tausug from Mindanao who was sent by the Sultanate of Sulu to the Cebu island.
That drew flak on social media, with such comments as outright wrong, fiction and an insult to Cebu and Cebuanos. History s accounts say Lapu-Lapu led the native warriors who killed in the battle the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Wednesday night, April 28, the senator posted an apology on Facebook.
[1] NO ADMISSION. The apology does not categorically admit the error about the piece of history and in raising it at the celebration, which could embarrass and anger, and did incite bad and ugly reaction from, Cebu and a number of Cebuanos.