National Museum will assemble Lolong
After the 5 months of waiting for Lolong's body to rotten, the local government of Bunawan, Agusan del Sur, decided to excavate the grave of Lolong to retrieve its bones for the assembling that will be held in the National Museum in Manila.
Mayor Cox Elorder headed the said excavation with his one of the Sangguniang Bayan Member Hon. Ronald Nuer, whom he is the head of the committee created for Lolong.
To check if the retrieval of the bones of Lolong is safe, Mayor Elorde attentively watched and monitored the process, especially on cleaning the bones.
According to Mayor Elorde, it will be delivered first at the Regional Museum in Butuan City to conduct another cleaning process of the bones before it deliver to the National Museum. After the assembling, it will be brought back in Bunawan, he added.
Until now, the mayor still remembers the happening that Lolong brought to him, where he treated Lolong as part of his family.
The assembling process of the bones of Lolong will be finished 3 to 5 months from now.
The excavation and cleaning took 2 hours to finish.
photo by: Richard Grande
