Thursday, August 30, 2007 Tomas wants street named after Daluz
CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña wants to honor the late Nenita “Inday Nita” Daluz by naming a street after her.
Osmeña said naming a street after Daluz will remind the public of her efforts in protecting the country’s democracy from the Marcos dictatorship.
Osmeña said yesterday that he will ask the City Council to waive the five-year waiting period for Daluz.
A Cebu City ordinance stipulates that no street in the city will be named after a person until five years after his or her death. An amendment to the ordinance allows the council to waive the requirement, upon the recommendation of the mayor.
Nenita, or Inday Nita to her listeners and friends, died of yesterday dawn after suffering from heart and kidney failure for the past months. She was 68.
“She was a very strong rallyist in the struggle against the Marcos dictatorship and I think she should be honored for that.
I would like to see a street named after her. We will just consult the family,” Osmeña told a news conference yesterday.
The mayor said he and his wife Margot were shocked to hear about her death and didn’t know that she had been confined at the Cebu Doctors’ Hospital for a month already.
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Councilor Josel Daluz III, son of Inday Nita, said they are honored by the mayor’s decision and that they will leave it to the mayor to decide which street will be named after his mother.
He told Sun.Star Cebu that the area surrounding Fuente Osmeña circle and the Osmeña Blvd. holds a lot of memories for their mother, who led thousands of Cebuanos in countless protest activities in the area during the Martial Law years.
“For us, any street will do. We don’t mind because it’s already an honor for our family to have a street named after our mother and I’d like to thank the mayor for that,” he said in a phone interview.
Inday Nita was station manager of dyRC, local station of the Manila Broadcasting Corp., when the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law on Sept. 21, 1972.
For almost three years before her death, she has been hosting her radio program over dyDD Bantay Radyo from her house in Sun Valley Subdivision along V. Rama Ave.
Inday Nita’s remains lie in state at her residence. Councilor Daluz said the family decided to have the funeral at the Queen City Garden after a mass at the Redemptorist Church on Sunday.
She is survived by her children Maritess, Marivic and Jose Daluz III. (LCR)
