PAGADIAN CITY: City policemen and the
military have tightened security in this city for the coming celebration of
this city’s fiesta.
The celebration kicked off last Friday,
which will run until the feast day of Sto. Niño, this city’s patron saint, on Jan.
18.
Police Chief Supt. Glenn Dulawan said
they tightened security since Thursday by deploying sufficient number of
policemen in strategic places here.
Combined police and military
personnel conducted saturation drive Friday morning in the coastal barangay of
Sta. Lucia following information about the presence of suspected lawless
elements in the area.
However, Dulawan said no one was
arrested and no firearms were confiscated during the saturation drive.
The re-enactment of the arrival of
Sto. Niño at the city wharf went peacefully, Friday, followed by a procession
from the wharf to the Sto. Niño Cathedral. The novena followed at 5:00 in the
afternoon.
Meanwhile, Mayor Romeo Pulmones
announced the cancellation of the Pasalamat Festival 2015 street dance
competition to pave way for the holding of the Church-led activities.
The Pasalamat Festival 2015 schedules
and all its activities are sponsored by
the city government.
Pulmones said they cancelled most
of the city government-sponsored activities so that the security measures will
be focused to the series of Church-led activities.
He said the only city
government-initiated activity that was not canceled is the two-day regatta from
January 17-18.
This year’s festival is anchored on
the theme “The Child Jesus was born poor to save the poorer.” (WITH REPORTS
FROM JONG CADION)