LAPU-LAPU City Mayor Paz Radaza is crusading to transfer the 40-foot brass statue of Datu Lapu-Lapu from Rizal Park in Manila to barangay Punta Engaño in Cebu. She plans set it up on a two-hectare plot of reclaimed land. “Just like the Statute of Liberty in New York.”
Rep. Raul del Mar, who initiated the move to install the statue in 2004, bucked the plan. The Luneta site gave “honor to Lapu-Lapu as a hero, not just of Cebu, but of the whole country.”
Is the lady waging the wrong battle at the wrong time?
Radaza bogged down last week in the Sandiganbayan on misuse by former Cebu congresswoman Clavel Asas-Martinez, and seven others of P15 million in pork barrel funds in 2002.
Source: Cebu | Sun.Star Online http://ift.tt/14IcC3V
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