The Tamesis
December 4, 2025
Manila— Ghost flooding control tasks considering that 2016 might have triggered greater than P180 billion in losses, according to Us senate Head of state Pro Tempore Panfilo “Sound” Lacson.
That number does not consist of subpar tasks, he claimed.
Lacson claimed he and Us senate Money Board Chairman Sherwin Gatchalian based the quote on regarding 10,000 tasks analyzed thus far, greater than 600 of which were discovered to be ghosts or non-existent.
” We are checking out 30,000 flooding control tasks from 2016. If we theorize from previous searchings for that greater than 600 out of 10,000 tasks are ghost tasks, Legislator Gatchalian and I approximate that 6 percent or even more out of 30,000 tasks can imply P180 billion or even more mosting likely to ghost tasks,” he claimed in a meeting with dzBB radio.
” Picture, we might have shed P180 billion because of ghost tasks, and we have not also began counting the losses on subpar tasks,” he included, keeping in mind that this leaves the variety of tasks found and settled thus far by the Us senate Blue Bow Board, which he chairs, as small.
Lacson additionally described the corruption behind substandard and phantom flooding protection tasks in fortunate speeches last August and September.
The Us senate leader additionally kept in mind that the 110 million pesos “returned” recently by previous Division of Public Functions and Freeways local designer Henry Alcantara was “irrelevant,” despite the fact that he anticipates to return an additional 200 million pesos in the coming weeks.
He additionally ensured that heaven Bow Compensation continues to be fully commited to checking out all offenses.
