New DPWH Chief Vince Dizon Inspects Flood Control Structure in Plaridel, Bulacan
DPWH chief Vince Dizon slammed the P96-million flood control project in Plaridel, Bulacan saying it was allegedly not made by humans.
The Department of Public Works and Highways was greatly criticized amid the issue of anomalous flood control projects funded by the government in several areas across the nation. In Bulacan, President Bongbong Marcos personally visited to see some of the flood control structures in the province.
However, Pres. Bongbong Marcos was left ‘not disappointed but angry’ over the P55-million ‘ghost’ Riverwall project. The Chief Executive arrived to nothing in the area even if the receipts showed that the government has already paid for the structure in full and the project is already marked completed based on the records.
Furthermore, in the same province, Pres. Bongbong Marcos was also left disappointed by another flood control project in the same province. According to him, the structure was incomplete and made of substandard materials. He called out the St. Timothy Construction which is the contractor of the said project.
The St. Timothy is one of the 15 contractors flagged by Pres. Bongbong Marcos to have received 20% of the total government spending on flood control deals from July 2022 to May 2025. According to Marcos Jr., the Philippines has spent P545-billion for the flood control projects since July 2022. Despite the huge spending, several areas across the nation is usually flooded when heavy rains hit the country.
Here are the 15 contractors that got around P100 billion from the government contracts:
- Legacy Construction Corporation
- Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Development Corp.
- St. Timothy Construction Corporation
- QM Builders
- EGB Construction Corporation
- Topnotch Catalyst Builders Inc.
- Centerways Construction and Development Inc.
- Sunwest, Inc.
- Hi-Tone Construction & Development Corp.
- Triple 8 Construction & Supply, Inc.
- Royal Crown Monarch Construction & Supplies Corp.
- Wawao Builders
- MG Samidan Construction
- L.R. Tiqui Builders, Inc.
- Road Edge Trading & Development Services
Amid the flood control issue in the Philippines, then-DPWH Chief Manuel Bonoan resigned from his position. He was immediately replaced with former Department of Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon.
According to new DPWH Chief Vince Dizon, he will order the “courtesy resignation” of all the agency’s officials including the undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, division heads, and district engineers of the agency nationwide. Recently, he personally visited another flood control project in Bulacan.
Based on a post of ABS-CBN News on social media, DPWH Chief Vince Dizon inspected the P96-million flood control project in Plaridel, Bulacan which was supposedly finished in 2024. However, its construction only began three (3) weeks ago.
“Hindi tao ang mga gumawa dito, hayop ang gumawa dito,” Dizon said.
Furthermore, based on the post, the DPWH Chief described the said flood control structure as another “ghost project” in Bulacan. According to him, the contractor might have gotten scared amid the ongoing flood probe so it rushed the construction of the structure.