DPWH should look for truth, not scapegoats
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
There is something very, very wrong with the manner by which Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Babes Singson and his boys are handling the Osmeña Flyover problem and all other road projects which have been found to be defective.
They are looking for scapegoats instead of the truth. In the case of the flyover, for example, they are banging the asphalt sub-contractors when it is clear that the problem is the fiber reinforcement polymer (FRP) or paving fabric which they installed and applied on 7,985 square meters of the fly over. That, by itself is already anomalous, since their original contract with their favorite contractor, Tokwing Construction, called for only 199 square meters. Experts from their own quality assurance unit (QAU) noted that there is no bonding between the paving fabric and the asphalt wearing course. Worse, the QAU noted that the material used was not approved by its own research unit, DPWH-BRS, a statement which was later confirmed by no less than DPWH-NCR Director Rey Tagudando who was quoted by media defending the “new experiment.” Experiment pala. No wonder Singson and his boys are busy diverting public and probably even P-Noy’s attention from their folly..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111021com5.html
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mega corruption bang malinaw ito? pagpalain kayo ng dmny.
"Singson’s diversionary tactic became even more pronounced when he utterly failed to mention that his agency approved the overprice of that FRP from P349 per square meter in the supplier’s offer to a whooping P9,428.49 in the signed contract with Tokwing Construction. That is a 27 times over price and if as is now shown used for 35 times the actual contracted volume, you are talking of a 945 times super profit for the contractor and his patrons within the DPWH. If that is not plunder, I don’t know what is. And Singson keeps talking about peanuts and other things even as he betrays his ignorance, and I am being generous with him here, when he insists in his interviews that the project cost is P100 million."
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