MANDAUE City government employees and officials joined the families and relatives of the late Court of Appeals justice Sotero B. Cabahug in offering flowers before his monument at the Mandaue City Plaza beside City Hall at 3 p.m. yesterday.
The floral offering led by Mayor Jonas Cortes marked today’s celebration of Cabahug’s 123rd birth anniversary. Some of the awardees of the Sotero Cabahug Medal for Academic Excellence were also present.
Cabahug was a statesman who served in the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of government. “He serves as an inspiration to the youth. He gave honor to the Mandauehanons,” City Market Administrator Musoline Suliva said.
Born on April 22, 1891 in Mandaue, Cebu to farming couple Narciso Cabahug and Cirila Barte, Sotero Cabahug studied in Mandaue’s public schools then at the Colegio Seminario de San Carlos in Cebu City and San Juan de Letran College in Manila.
He started his public career as a justice of the peace in Surigao in 1917, then deputy provincial fiscal in Cebu the following year and municipal councilor in Mandaue in 1920.
Cabahug also served in Congress representing Cebu’s 2nd district from 1928 to 1931. /Xavier University Intern Irish Maika R.Lam
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