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multimillion 2019 SEA
Games cauldron?
Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 21 2019 04:21 PM | Updated as of Nov 21 2019 05:05 PM

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MANILA - What was supposed to be the

landmark of the 30th Southeast Asian Games
in the Philippines has become the centerpiece
of controversy in the host country days before
the regional meet, as Filipino taxpayers
question its P50-million price tag.

Metal bars and panes were pieced together to

create a 50-meter high structure that would
mark the opening of the regional competition,
but inside the tower that held the cauldron
was a hollow space ladened with gravel.

Metal ladders were attached to one side of the

vertical structure. Its metal bolts and bearings
still exposed to anyone who would enter the
"symbolic" chamber.

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The government spent some P18 million for a

"mechanism" that would keep the game's
symbolic flame burning for 11 days, House
Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, who also chairs
the Philippine Southeast Asian Games
Organizing Committee (PHISGOC), earlier
said.

Organizers have yet to clarify if the

contraption was meant to be installed inside
the cauldron's hollow space.

The government also shelled out some P7

million for the design and construction of the
main cauldron, among the last pieces of
national artist for architecture Francisco
"Bobby" Mañosa before he passed away in
February 2019.

Some P17 million was earmarked for the

development of the structure's site.

Cayetano had said constructing the cauldron

was "not excessive."

"Ang cauldron ay isang monumento. Isa itong

simbolo. Isa itong work of art. Ito ay isang
requirement sa lahat ng games because it
symbolizes the games’ competition, spirit,"
Cayetano earlier said.

! 'Not excessive': Cayetano justifies P45-M

price tag of SEA Games cauldron

Senate Majority Leader Franklin Drilon said he

will seek a Senate inquiry after the games end
next month to probe how organizers spent
taxpayers' money.

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