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Protesters hurl mud, spray paint 'thief' on St. Gerrard Construction's gate in Pasig

Published Sep 4, 2025 11:42 am  |  Updated Sep 4, 2025 01:52 pm
Members of the environmental group Kalikasan storm the St. Gerrard Construction office owned by the Discaya family in Pasig City on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The protesters hurled mud at the property, symbolizing the burden carried by flood victims due to failed flood-control projects. They also spray-painted the words “Magnanakaw” and “Korap” on the office walls and gate to express anger over alleged corruption in flood-control contracts awarded to the Discaya family’s companies. (Santi San Juan)
Members of the environmental group Kalikasan storm the St. Gerrard Construction office owned by the Discaya family in Pasig City on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The protesters hurled mud at the property, symbolizing the burden carried by flood victims due to failed flood-control projects. They also spray-painted the words “Magnanakaw” and “Korap” on the office walls and gate to express anger over alleged corruption in flood-control contracts awarded to the Discaya family’s companies. (Santi San Juan)
Members of Kalikasan and a disaster survivors' group threw mud during their staged protest on Thursday, Sept. 4, in front of St. Gerrard Construction firm in Pasig, owned by the Discaya family.
The mud thrown, they claimed, show the burden of flood victims.
Members of the environmental group Kalikasan storm the St. Gerrard Construction office owned by the Discaya family in Pasig City on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The protesters hurled mud at the property, symbolizing the burden carried by flood victims due to failed flood-control projects. They also spray-painted the words “Magnanakaw” and “Korap” on the office walls and gate to express anger over alleged corruption in flood-control contracts awarded to the Discaya family’s companies. (Santi San Juan)
Members of the environmental group Kalikasan storm the St. Gerrard Construction office owned by the Discaya family in Pasig City on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The protesters hurled mud at the property, symbolizing the burden carried by flood victims due to failed flood-control projects. They also spray-painted the words “Magnanakaw” and “Korap” on the office walls and gate to express anger over alleged corruption in flood-control contracts awarded to the Discaya family’s companies. (Santi San Juan)
Members of the environmental group Kalikasan storm the St. Gerrard Construction office owned by the Discaya family in Pasig City on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The protesters hurled mud at the property, symbolizing the burden carried by flood victims due to failed flood-control projects. They also spray-painted the words “Magnanakaw” and “Korap” on the office walls and gate to express anger over alleged corruption in flood-control contracts awarded to the Discaya family’s companies. (Santi San Juan)
Members of the environmental group Kalikasan storm the St. Gerrard Construction office owned by the Discaya family in Pasig City on Thursday, September 4, 2025. The protesters hurled mud at the property, symbolizing the burden carried by flood victims due to failed flood-control projects. They also spray-painted the words “Magnanakaw” and “Korap” on the office walls and gate to express anger over alleged corruption in flood-control contracts awarded to the Discaya family’s companies. (Santi San Juan)
Protesters also spray-painted “Magnanakaw (thief),” and “Korap (corrupt).”
They also shouted, “Discaya ikulong, kurakot panagutin! (Jail Discaya, hold the corrupt accountable!).”
The groups accused the company of getting flood control contracts that failed to ease the flooding in communities.
Ban contractors, freeze their assets
"Amid ongoing investigations by various government agencies into the trillion-peso flood control scam, contractors like the Discayas and corrupt public officials continue to brazenly evade accountability and feign ignorance," Akbayan said.
"Their impunity fuels the outrage of the Filipino people, who bear the brunt of their corruption by suffering extreme floods at the slightest downpour," it added.
Akbayan, together with Youth Against Kurakot and other civil society groups, will stage a noise barrage and creative protest action with over a hundred participants again on Friday, Sept. 5, outside the St. Gerrard Construction Building, F. Manalo, Pasig City.
"This action calls for nothing less than the immediate banning of corrupt contractors from all government projects, abolition of any form of pork barrel from the people’s budget, and the freezing of their ill-gotten assets. Until plunderers like the Discayas are held accountable, the cycle of floods and corruption will continue to drown the Filipino people," Akbayan said in a statement.
St. Gerrard Construction firm is one of the alleged firms involved in flood control projects and is owned by the Discaya family.
On Wednesday, Sept. 3, the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB) revoked the licenses of nine construction companies owned by Sarah and Curlee Discaya, after admitting that the firms had been bidding against each other for a lucrative government contract.
PCAB said these Discaya-owned companies include St. Gerrard Construction Gen. Contractor & Dev’t Corp., Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Dev’t Corp., St. Timothy Construction Corp., Amethyst Horizon Builders and Gen. Contractor & Dev’t Corp., and St. Matthew General Contractor & Development Corp.
Also included are Great Pacific Builders And General Contractor Inc., YPR General Contractor And Construction Supply Inc., Way Maker OPC, and Elite General Contractor And Development Corp.
READ:
https://mb.com.ph/2025/09/03/pcab-revokes-licenses-of-9-discaya-led-construction-firms
Meanwhile, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) announced on Tuesday, Sept. 2, that all 12 luxury vehicles linked to the Discaya family were accounted for following a court-ordered search at the St. Gerrard Construction General Contractor and Development Corp. headquarters in Pasig City.
The operation was conducted by the BOC’s Intelligence and Enforcement units.
READ:
https://mb.com.ph/2025/09/02/all-12-discaya-linked-luxury-cars-now-in-boc-custody
As of this writing, St. Gerrard Construction and the Discaya family have not yet released a statement.

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