Cebu City police officials Friday destroyed an estimated P3 million worth of pyrotechnic devices, rejecting the owner's suggestion to donate these for the Sinulog festivities.
The destruction was illegal, said lawyer Noel Archival, representing Brian Lim. For one, it did not have the permission of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), he said.
Archival tried to convince Senior Superintendent Ramon Melvin Buenafe, director of the Cebu City Police Office (CCPO), to let Lim donate the pyrotechnics to City Hall for the Sinulog. But Buenafe followed Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama's order.
Before the CCPO's last flag retreat for 2010 Friday, the police soaked Lim's seized products and other confiscated firecrackers.
The City Treasurer's Office and the City Intelligence Branch confiscated the pyrotechnics from the outlets of Lim's Pyroworks Pyrotechnic Perfection stalls in a mall last Dec. 7. - pna
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