Senator Mark Villar on Tuesday, August 26 has called on relevant government agencies to hold accountable those contractors who may have submitted falsified geotagged photographs of government projects as part of their certification and justify payments. Villar, a former Department of Public Works...
The League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) expressed its support for President Marcos ' directive to reinstate the practice of involving local government units (LGUs) in the planning and implementation of national government-funded projects in their respective localities. The group,...
San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora has called for a whole-of-nation approach to solve the perennial problem of flooding in the country, saying that the construction and proper operation of flood control projects are not enough in curbing it. In a radio interview, Zamora, also the president of the...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced it will suspend a Batangas district engineer accused of offering more than P3 million to Batangas First District Representative Leandro Leviste just to dissuade him from probing alleged irregular flood control projects in the province....
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, August 24 expressed the belief that the final test on corrupted flood control projects lies in the certainty of punishment. Lacson said that while President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) and the launching of the...
Senator Paolo “Bam” Aquino IV has called on the government to employ more Filipino scientists in crafting science-based flood control measures. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Science and Technology also called on the government to redirect significant funding toward climate resiliency...
President Marcos declared that he would not leave Malacañang until the country’s flood control problems were resolved, calling out corruption and poor workmanship in government projects. “If there’s one thing I will not leave this office until I fix this. This is one of those things,”...
A civil society group based in Bulacan has urged President Marcos to include provincial officials in the investigation of ghost projects and other anomalies involving flood control projects in the province. In a complaint forwarded to Malacañang on Aug. 22, Tindig Kalikasan claimed that Bulacan...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" declared on Saturday, Aug. 23 that senators were not beyond suspicion in the controversy on anomalous and "ghost" flood control projects. Lacson claimed that both his fellow senators and House members introduced insertions or amendments in the national budget bill, thus his...
Former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio Singson rejected Malacañang’s offer to return to the Cabinet and instead expressed willingness to lead an independent investigation into alleged multibillion-peso irregularities in the agency’s flood control projects....
Why showcase flood control projects as part of your accomplishment report, then disown them once they become controversial? Sen. Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson pointed this out in his reply to Oriental Mindoro 1st District Rep. Arnan Panaligan, who denied involvement in a damaged flood control project...
The League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) aired its support for President Marcos ' call for transparency and accountability on the flood control projects that were uncovered to be either "ghost" projects or sub-standardly built by some contractors who had the monopoly of these projects....
