LOPEZ JAENA Street located in Barangay’s Parian and Tinago, Cebu City, will now be called Eduardo Aboitiz Street.
This took place as the city government of Cebu, together with the representatives of the Aboitiz family and officials of barangays Parian and Tinago, officially unveiled the Eduardo Aboitiz markers early morning on July 19.
Cebu City Mayor Tommy Osmeña, together with Rep. Raul del Mar, Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella, Councilors Margarita Osmeña and Joel Garganera, Parian Brgy. Captain Jeremiah Nuñez, Tinago Brgy. Captain Raffy Briones, Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (Rafi) President and Chairman Jon Ramon Aboitiz, unveiled at least three markers of the new Eduardo Aboitiz Street.
Cebu City Council Resolution Number 1290 was passed and approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Cebu as Cebu City Ordinance Number 1269 on November 16, 1987, renaming Lopez Jaena Street to Eduardo Aboitiz Street.
In his message, Osmeña underscored the importance to pay tribute to the Aboitiz family for keeping their roots and contributing to the development of Cebu City, adding that there are great development plans in Cebu City, especially in the Eduardo Aboitiz Street area.
The mayor said he wants Cebu representatives to sponsor a bill to declare Cebu City as the Oldest City in the Philippines based from the Spanish Royal Decree signed by Spanish King Philip II granting Cebu a title of a city way back in 1595, which he just learned and discovered recently.
Jon Ramon Aboitiz thanked the Cebu City government for the great honor bestowed upon his father, Eduardo Aboitiz, with the renaming of the street.
“Thank you for recognizing my father’s humanitarian and philanthropic contributions to the Cebuano community,” Aboitiz said, citing the ordinance.
Both Nuñez and Briones acknowledged the contribution of the Aboitiz family in their respective communities.
The historical activity was also attended by some Cebu City department heads and employees, other officials and personnel from barangays Parian and Tinago, employees of Rafi, and the local media, among others.