VOL. 8 ISSUE 4 • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015
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NOT FEASIBLE Pulong hits UPMin Sports Complex project over land claims INSIDE EDGE
By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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AVAO City Vice Mayor Paolo Z. Duterte believes the proposed City Sports Complex inside the University of the Philippines Mindanao (UPMin) in Bago Oshiro, Mintal is not feasible due to the problems of the claimants living in the area. In an interview yesterday, Paolo told reporters that the settlers in the area were
already there even before UPMin came to the area in 1995. “Ang lisod man gud ana kay sige lang sila storya sa P200 million, actually, P8 billion na nga project. So, karon sa P200 million sa akong pagkabalo mo counterpart pa gyud ang na P100 million, asa man ta mamunit anang P100 million (The difficult part is, they are talking about P200 mil-
lion when actually the project costs P8 billion. Now as far as I know, in the P200 million, the city will give a counterpart P100 million. Where can we get P100 million)?,” he said. He said if the national government will allocate a P200 million budget for the sports complex, then it should just give it to the city government and let it find a place for the
project outside of UPMin where a lot of claimants will be affected. “Kalapad aning Davao City. Pwede man siguro ta mamalit na lang og yuta. Tagpila lang man ng 20 hectares (Davao City is very wide. It would be easy to purchase land. Twenty hectares won’t cost that much),” he said.
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