Marcos: 6,000 flood control projects lacked key details, bulk awarded to 15 firms

MORE than 6,000 flood control projects launched since 2022 lacked key details, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said on Monday, noting most of which were awarded to 15 contractors.

- By Chloe Mari A. Hufana Reporter

The government rolled out P545 billion worth of flood control works since the president assumed his post in July 2022, including 6,021 projects, worth P350 billion, that failed to specify the exact type of infrastructure.

“There are 6,021 projects worth more than 350 billion [pesos] that do not specify the exact type of flood control that is being built,” he told reporters in a rare press briefing in Malacañang as he released the initial results of the government's probe following his pronouncements in his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) last July 28.

He also flagged that 50 projects in different locations had exactly the same contract cost.

“I think anybody who works in either the private sector or the public sector, when they say there are fifty projects, all the same, P150 million... that’s impossible,” he added in mixed English and Filipino.