The History of Barangay Tomas Cabili

The History of Barangay Tomas Cabili

     Barangay Tominobo proper is one of the many barangay in Iligan City whose origin remains unknown.

     Barangay Tominobo was created virtue of a resolution no. 58, series 1967 of the city council of Iligan and city ordinance no. 337 which was approved on December 31, 1967.

     On 1978, the Barangay council of Tominobo passed and approved a resolution , authored by Barangay Kagawad Feliciano L. Palos, changing the name of Barangay tominobo into barangay Tomas L. Cabili in honor of late Senator from Iligan City.

  

     Tomás Lluisma Cabili (March 7, 1903 – March 17, 1957) was a lawyer, journalist, educator, and assemblyman from Lanao. He is also known as Sultan Dimasangkay-ko-Ranao for Maranaos.

     He was a senator of the Advertiser and later member of the staff of Cebu's The Freeman from 1924 to 1926. He was a correspondent of the National News Service between 1930 and 1932; and again from 1933 up to his election to the First National Assembly; and as a Lanao correspondent for the DMIM papers and the Graphic.

     He was died along with President Ramon Magsaysay and 23 others on a plane crash on March 17, 1957 at Mount Manunggal in Balamban, Cebu.

     After he died, his son named Camilo P. Cabili was a City Mayor of Iligan City changed the name of the barangay tominobo into his father name. That's why Barangay Tominobo was called Barangay Tomas Cabili.

     Some people called it Tominobo. But somehow, they called it Tomas Cabili because of the school that was constructed.