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Gibo wants DPWH's unfinished 'TIKAS' projects with DND scrapped

Published Oct 10, 2025 10:55 am
A two-storey battalion office and officer’s quarters built under the "TIKAS" program is inaugurated by officials of the Department of National Defense (DND) and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) inside the headquarters of the 53rd Engineering Brigade in San Jose, Tacloban City on August 3, 2021. (Photo: Armed Forces of the Philippines)
A two-storey battalion office and officer’s quarters built under the "TIKAS" program is inaugurated by officials of the Department of National Defense (DND) and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) inside the headquarters of the 53rd Engineering Brigade in San Jose, Tacloban City on August 3, 2021. (Photo: Armed Forces of the Philippines)
It turns out that even the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) isn’t spared by anomalies in infrastructure projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr. has called for the scrapping of all unfinished “TIKAS” projects implemented by the DPWH for the military following revelations that many of the facilities remain incomplete or unusable.
“TIKAS” or the Tatag ng Imprastraktura para sa Kapayapaan at Seguridad program, was meant to build and improve military facilities using DPWH funds and management.
However, during a recent Senate Committee on Finance hearing on the DND’s proposed 2026 budget, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian flagged multiple projects that remain unfinished years after their allocation.
Teodoro said the program should be terminated as he cited wasted resources and the lack of tangible results for the defense sector.
“The unfinished military facilities flagged by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian during the Senate Committee on Finance deliberation of the DND's FY 2026 budget are projects funded and managed by the Department of Public Works and Highways through its Tatag ng Imprastraktura para sa Kapayapaan at Seguridad (TIKAS) Program for the military,” the DND said in a statement Thursday, Oct. 9.
Teodoro recommended that the projects be scrapped as he explained that some projects under the program remained unfinished because “funding was not sustained, and the infrastructures were left incomplete and/or unusable.”
Teodoro also backed Gatchalian’s proposal to transfer the TIKAS budget to the DND starting 2026, allowing the department to directly oversee and implement its own defense infrastructure programs.
“Should the proposed transfer transpire, the DND shall ensure the judicious use of public funds, especially for the hardening of defense infrastructures aligned with our strategic basing and operational security requirements,” the defense department noted.
The call came as the DPWH faces continuing allegations of corruption over ghost and substandard flood control projects across the country.

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