Fisherman felt scared on meeting with mayor
Cebu Daily News
March 12, 2012

THE mayor said he just wants to ask questions, the fisherman admitted lying out of fear and ecology advocates cry harassment.

This is the drama unfolding around the Cordova reclamation project.

When faced by Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy, a complainant against the project admitted that he lied about his involvement in the case.

Edie Quijano, 46, said he told Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy he does not have anything to do with the case filed by green groups with the Ombudsman-Visayas against the mayor and six other government officials last week.

“I told him that I did not know about the case even though I was one of the people who filed it,” Quijano told Cebu Daily News in Cebuano.

He said he felt nervous when three barangay tanods went to his house in barangay Carolinas last Saturday and told him that Sitoy wants to see him.

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