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Davao flood projects unfunded
By Nidz Godino
“Vice president, like every Filipino, has right to point out problems confronting our countrymen…unlike ordinary citizens, however, she can actually suggest or do something tangible about them using her position, resources and platform,” Senate President Chiz Escudero said Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio on Friday doubled down on her criticism of Marcos administration’s lack of flood control masterplan, this time claiming that national government may be refusing to fund flood control projects in Davao City because “mayor is Duterte.”
In another open letter-type statement posted on Duterte’s personal page and shared by Office of the Vice President, Duterte is using her “position, resources and platform” to “show our government officials how to command.”
This comes after Escudero told reporters on Friday that Duterte’s comments about Marcos administration’s lack of master plan for flood infrastructure are “perplexing” given that her father, former President Rodrigo Duterte, had “six years to develop one, but was unable to do so.”
Escudero said flooding has been long-time problem that could have already been solved by previous government.
Without naming Escudero, the vice president recalled that during her term as Davao City mayor, she ordered city’s engineer office and Department of Public Works and Highways to study flood problem of the city.
This, according to Duterte, led to her father’s creation of flood control master plan.
“Kaya nga mayroon nagawa ang PRRD administration sa flood planning…nagsimula noong Setyembre 2016 at na-publish noong Hulyo 2023 ang Master Plan and Feasibility Study for Flood Control,baka naman gusto nang pondohan ang mga infrastructure projects na naaayon sa masterplan…o baka naman may alinlangan pa hinggil dito dahil Duterte ang mayor at mas mamarapatin nilang gibain na lang?” Duterte said, referring to her brother, Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte.
Philippine Center of Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) report in 2018 found that DPWH under former President Rodrigo Duterte went on an “infrastructure frenzy” trumped that of former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
According to then-DPWH Secretary Mark Villar, in just 24 months or from July 2016 to July 2018, DPWH under Duterte awarded 1,833 projects monthly, or 60 projects daily. Projects included flood-control systems, roads, bridges, schools, water systems, irrigation, power systems and other civil-works projects.
In a 2013 report, Commission on Audit flagged Davao City for using up just 11% of its P175 million funds for flood control and disaster preparedness projects under Disbursement Acceleration Program, or DAP. City mayor during first half of the year was Sara Duterte before her father replaced her.
DAP, enabled use of unprogrammed funds and seen as replacement to discretionary pork barrel funds of lawmakers, was ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court
in 2014.
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