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Auditing Failure
The Philippine Star
|August 22, 2025
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All eyes are currently on the contractors, their political patrons and officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
But Sen. Panfilo Lacson, in his impressive privilege speech last Wednesday, mentioned another key player in what he described as the "flooded gates of corruption" in flood mitigation infrastructure: state auditors.
In his slide presentation, Lacson estimated that about 60 percent of the cost of flood control projects went to kickbacks, with the biggest share of 20 to 25 percent going to the politicians who earmark the projects for funding, followed by DPWH officials, mostly district engineers.
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