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should have volunteered to head the organizing committee or LIOUSE Speaker Alan Cavetano could at least have secured the Southeast Asian Games Oroaniz- I lhas had enouqh as he dared ing Committee (phisgoc), ii was budget for the group, Senators Panfilo "ping', Lacson and expected for Cayetano to feel hurt In line with president Du_ Franklin Drilon to take a lie-detector terte's order for an investioa- and insulted. test with him. tion on the supposed shena-ni- Instead of pocketing any centavo, gans on the sportinq event. The whole point ofthe challenoe Cayetano claimed he and his DeoDle is for Cayetano to prove his claim Cayetano ordered that a lettei even had to shell out some of their that he did not pocket a sinole personal money for the event. be sent to the Commission on centavo from the Southeast Asian Audit to conduct an indepen_ Since Cayetano took on the dent audit of all funds used in Games. role of lead organizer for the SEA Lacson remarked that the trans_ Games, its budget was inserted in the SEA Ga mes. fer of F1,5 billion pubtic funds for Cayetano firmly believed that the 2019 Department of Foreion Af_ the SEA Games from the philip- fairs (DFA) budqet, which the tiouse there were individuals behind prne sports Commission (pSC) to a smear campaign against him the Cayetano-led private group Speaker formerly headed. \ and the SEA Games and prom- Cayetano wondered whv the was stmilar to the controversial rsed to unmask them. senators were now wonderinc whv pork barrel scam led bv Janet the SEA Games budqet was todoe6 Senator Bong Go, chair of Napoles. the Senate committee on sports, on the DFA since they themsel-ves Drilon earlier slammed tbe F50_ vowed to initiate a Senate inouirv approved ofthe 2019 national bud- million cauldron, which could have into the issues that led to inmnve- get for the regional sports meet. allegedly funded the education of niences experienced bV deleoates. Cayetano also said it was eaw for public school chitdren and branded his critics to accuse him of havino a 8ut as Firing Line point6d out it as Cayetano's cauldron. earlier, if a probe were to be con- conflict of interest, being a phisg-oc Being the chair ofthe philippine cnart and, at the same time, a sit_ ducted, it should be done after the games, c,.]?e1
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