Senate probe into flood control projects

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Anomalous

Ghost projects

Copy paste projects.

Substandard construction

The structures are easily carried away by floods and really do not work - control the floods.

How shameful.  

Top 15 contractors.  Contractors congressmen

50% KB to Legislators, lgu heads, only 30% goes to the project materials and labor.

This angers and scandalizes many taxpayers who are hounded by BIR who sweat blood and tears just to be able to pay the taxes and do these.  Those that are funded by borrowings, we pay them anywhere

And the budget for DPWH is P1B/day.   

What happened:   1.  No one supervises   2  No audit (CoA is in cohoots or turns blind eye may pilak na tapal sa mata

This was not given much attention in the past.   Even in maybe Pnoy or Duterte time.    Where are the leaders all this time.  Thanks to Senate Leadership now for this initiative.   

The media and the top leaders gave much attention to the impeachment to divert attention to this wholesale plunder?  DAPAT TALAGANG MAHIYA

Bakit binaha ng ganuong katindi ang Bicol sa typhoon Kristine? Saan napunta ang flood control project funding na daang bilyon?

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We can only cry and pity the poor Bicolanos inundated by flood by rain brough by typhoon Cristine.  And the irony of it all is that the budget for flood control in the 2024 budtet is P255 billion.   Where did the money go?   Were the projects implemented?  Or improperly done

And the irony of it all is that the chairman of the appropiations committee is from Bicol.  The Senate President is from Bicol. 

And the past chair of ways and means committee were from Bicol and we hear about the heavily funded Bicol River Basin project.   

Some Engineers posited that the terrain will lead to the flood.  The 94 km Bicol river coming from as far as Ragay meets the Naga River and when there is high tide all the water meets the flood water at Naga City.   That is catastrophic.   

Typhoon Kristine was an act of God.  But let us see acts of men mitigate this.  We could have done better with flood  control.   

Budget hearing for the OVP Duterte

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VP Sara did not answer many of the questions asked during the initial hearing for the budget of her office.   She later did not attend the hearing yesterday which other members of the committee took as a boycott and insult. Ms Sara sent a letter to the committee saying that she has submitted all the docs and requirements for the budget.

It should be observed though that there issues from COA which needs to be addressed as former head of Dep ed.

Elsewhere it was said:

1  That only two persons at Congress has full control of the budget?  (She alleges that her requsest for

     schoolbuilding was only x amount.  However, what was approved was much higher  and which

     was to be apportioned to other members of the Congress... Hmmm Dapat investigathan din)

2.  That her office can operate without a budget in case her office is defunded as is a threat

Earlier, Cong. Marcoleta called out that the OVP should be respected. 

This post agrees with the observation of Cong Dante Marcoleta, and  that the memberf of the committee were ganging on her.

Let us pray for her and the members of the committee