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Unidentified men threw stones at Liberal Party (LP) candidates who were holding a pulong-pulong in barangay Pajac, Lapu-Lapu City, causing panic.
Lawyer Eugene Espedido, the LP candidate for the city?s lone congressional seat, was about to start talking when stones started raining on the meeting at sitio Santiago, barangay Pajac at about 11 p.m. on Friday.
An LP press statement said two unidentified men were seen brandishing pistols. One of the armed allegedly cocked his gun, prompting everybody to run for cover.
The stoning incident was recorded later in the Mactan police blotter, but there was no mention of men with guns in the record.
Espedido and midwife Thelma Juma-as, LP candidate for the City Council, ran to their vehicles and left the place immediately, fearing harm would happen to them, according to Efrain T. Pelaez, Jr., who is running for mayor under the LP against Paz Radaza.
Pelaez had just left the place and was on the way to another gathering in the same barangay that night when the incident happened.
"I was actually still talking when my driver later told me that someone threw three stones at my car but missed it," said Pelaez.
He said he immediately returned to sitio Santiago and talked to local residents about what happened. He reported the incident to the Mactan PNP at 11:50 p.m. accompanied by his two security escorts who claimed seeing the armed men.
Pelaez and party members accused their opponents of resorting to terror tactics to scare them and their supporters from coming out in the open.
"All the three pulong-pulongs we had Friday night in Pajac were well-attended. Our opponents must be very anxious that we are now drawing larger crowds in our consultations," he said.
But Pelaez assured Lapu-Lapu residents that his group under the Kalihokan sa Katawhan Alang sa Kalambuan (KKK, People's Movement for Progress) that the LP adopted in the city would not be cowed by terrorism.
He also disclosed that they have been experiencing acts of harassment over the past three weeks, including the denial of electric connection for the lights and sounds that they used.
He called on the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) to strictly enforce the Comelec gun ban in the city by conducting intelligence surveillance and nightly checkpoints.
"Narco politics seems to be ruling indeed in Lapu-Lapu City now," he said.
A day before, Pelaez had called Councilor Junard "Ahong" Chan, mayoralty candidate of the Nationalist Peoples Coalition (NPC), as a "pseudo oppositionist."
He also revived charges of graft and corruption and incompetence against incumbent Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Arturo Radaza, who is running under Lakas-Kampi against Espedido, and his wife Paz who he is facing off in the mayoralty race.
