The province’s food security program, KAAGAPAY, will be further supported with the coming establishment of a P50 million-worth multi-purpose coliseum.
“…Ang main purpose gyud ani mao ni ang back-up support sa atong KAAGAPAY (the main purpose of this [coliseum] is to serve as a back-up support to our KAAGAPAY),” Governor Edwin I. Jubahib said during the Groundbreaking Ceremony on June 1, 2021 at Government Center, Mankilam, Tagum City.
Jubahib explained that it will serve as a “temporary trading post” as it will have a cold storage component to it, allowing the vegetable and livestock harvests of the KAAGAPAY beneficiaries to be stored there.
As a multi-purpose coliseum, Jubahid added that “kung naa tay mga event nga dinaghanay pwede nato ni magamit (if we have an event with a lot of people, we can hold the event here).”
According to him, the P50 million funding of this coliseum is the first initial budget of the previous P500 million “big dome” project of 1st District Congressman Pantaleon Alvarez back when he served as the Speaker of the House.
After the Department of Budget and Management advised Jubahib that there will no longer be anymore budget for the dome project, Jubahib decided to use the P50 million to establish the multi-purpose coliseum instead.
The Provincial Government expected for the completion of the coliseum to be within 450 days, but RELY Project Manager, Engr. Cesar G. Villagomeza, assured that the coliseum will be completed in 90 days. (Jan Vincent Leuterio/PIA-XI and PICKMO DavNor)
