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Ninez Cacho-Olivares
10/07/2011
Deputy Minority Leader Rep. Danny Suarez has called for an investigation into cancelled flood control projects entered into by the previous administration.

These flood control projects done through negotiated contracts, Suarez pointed out, were in the very areas in Luzon which felt the brunt of the twin typhoons, and have been inundated, with waters that were waist- and neck-deep.

Suarez’s bill was “an urgent resolution calling for an investigation in aid of legislation by the appropriate committee of the House of Representatives regarding the effect of the cancellation of the post Ondoy and Pepeng short term infrastructure rehabilitation projects (Popstrip) on the flood control program of the government,” adding that months before the onset of the rainy season, the current Aquino administration cancelled several flood control projects.”

He pointed to a Department of Public Works and Highway press release dated July 28, 2010, where DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson was quoted as having cancelled 19 approved negotiated projects worth P934.1 million under the Popstrip, which projects were part of the contract packages funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) loan for the urgent rehabilitation of flood control facilities worth P1.9 billion..... MORE

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