Former Mayor Alfredo Lim brought around Manila's streets for the last time

Published August 29, 2020 9:44am
Updated August 29, 2020 11:14am

A motorcade goes through the streets of Manila carrying the urn of the late Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. A Mass will be held at a church in Tondo on Saturday morning before his remains are brought to his final resting place at the North Cemetery in Manila. DANNY PATA

The remains of former Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim were brought by a motorcade around some of the city's streets on Saturday morning before inurnment.

The funeral hearse bearing his urn went to the Manila City Hall, the Manila Police District and the National Bureau of Investigation headquarters—places were Lim used to work as mayor, MPD chief and NBI director, respectively, according to a report by Manny Vargas on Dobol B sa News TV.

Daloy ng trapiko sa ilang bahagi ng Maynila, pansamantalang ipinatitigil para sa funeral convoy ni dating Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim. | via @VargasMannysen pic.twitter.com/FZM6Xh9aVk
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Traffic was stopped in these areas to allow the funeral convoy to pass through.

The convoy also went to the Senate in Pasay City. Lim served as senator from 2004 to 2007.

Senate President Vicente Sotto III and Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Edgardo Rene Samonte met Lim's funeral hearse and bade the former senator goodbye.

LOOK: Senate President Vicente Sotto III paid his last respects to former Senator and former Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim as the latter’s hearse passed by the Senate building on Saturday morning. @gmanews

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A long row of vehicles with white balloons followed the funeral hearse as it went around Manila.

From the Manila City Hall, the motorcade will proceed to a church in Tondo for a Mass before going to the Manila North Cemetery for inurnment.

Lim passed away on August 8 at the age of 90. Manila Mayor Isko Moreno said Lim died after contracting COVID-19.

His family was still at a loss as to how he got COVID-19, which led to kidney complications that eventually caused his death. His son Roland said the former mayor went out only about five times since quarantine measures were imposed in mid-March in Metro Manila.

Lim was Manila mayor for a total of 12 years from 1992 to 1999, and from 2007 to 2013.

He was also former director of the NBI (1989-1992) and secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (2000 to 2001) during the administration of President Joseph Estrada, who had beaten him in the 1998 presidential elections.

The NBI said Lim helped reform the agency during his time as director, and the changes he brought will continue to be part of the bureau.

The Philippine National Police meanwhile expressed gratitude for Lim’s “legacy of efficiency” that, it said, shall serve as the standard of performance in the police service.

“His undying words: ‘The law applies to all, otherwise, none at all,’ reminds us that we live under a regime of law where the law is supreme, and nobody but nobody is above the law,” the PNP said.

Malacañang meanwhile said: "The nation, particularly the City of Manila, remembers Mayor Lim for his tough stance against criminality and drugs. He left a legacy of law and order to his constituents."

Christy Lim-Raymundo, Lim’s daughter, earlier expressed the family’s appreciation for everyone who supported and condoled with them following the former mayor's death. —KG, GMA News

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