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Nayong Pilipino resort breaks ground as Duterte sacks board
Nayong Pilipino resort breaks ground as Duterte sacks board
Jessica Fenol and Dharel Placido,
ABS-CBN News
Published Aug 07, 2018 01:57 PM PHT
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Updated Aug 07, 2018 03:50 PM PHT
Nayong Pilipino Foundation Chairperson Patricia Ocampo (in black, 3rd from right) poses with investors from Landing International in the groundbreaking ceremony of theme park NayonLanding. They are joined by PAGCOR Chief Andrea Domingo (rightmost). Jessica Fenol, ABS-CBN News
MANILA -- Hong Kong's Landing International and the Nayong Pilipino Foundation on Tuesday broke ground on a $1.5 billion theme park, just as Malacanang announced that President Rodrigo Duterte sacked the entire board of the Filipino entity.
The board was fired after President Rodrigo Duterte found that the 70-year lease of government would be "grossly disadvantageous" to the state, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said.
Landing "embraced the entire concept" of promoting Filipino heritage through the theme park, said Nayong Pilipino Foundation chairperson Patricia Ocampo.
"We all came here from different walks of life, because we had one purpose, one vision of helping our country," Ocampo said.
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Ocampo said she was looking forward to a "very long future" with Landing, whose Filipino subsidiary recently secured a casino license from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.
Nayon Landing will be located in Entertainment City, Landing said on its website. The strip also includes Solaire, Okada and City of Dreams casino resorts.
The project has $1.5 billion in investment commitments and will include a Nayong Pilipino Theme Park, convention center, hotels, offices and commercial facilities in a nearly 100,000 square-meter space, PAGCOR said.
Roque, however, could not yet give details as to which contract the President was referring to and if the sacked officials also include his relative, Maria Fema Duterte, who recently feuded with her fellow board members.
"He did not say. He did not even specify. Basta sabi niya everyone (He just said everyone)," Roque said, adding the President was "just exasperated."
Ocampo did not answer questions from the media about the future of the project as she was escorted out of the construction site.
Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation Chairperson Andrea Domingo, who was at the event, also declined interviews.
LOOK: Scale model of NayonLanding, Landing International's integrated resort in the Philippines which will house a hotel, an indoor water park and a casino | via @jessfenolpic.twitter.com/nr2IqYL0qD
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