Marilyn Cahatol

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1757307867949cropped-Screen Shot 2025-09-08 at 12.58.07 PM.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Oriental Mindoro Governor Humerlito Dolor was dismayed to find that the dike was filled mostly with sand, had thin concrete, and was supported by only small steel bars. ABS-CBN News</span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Oriental Mindoro Gov. Humerlito “Bonz” Dolor on Monday said that a total of P17.8 billion worth of flood-control projects were inserted in the province&#x27;s budget from 2022 to 2025. </p><p>Dolor, during the Senate Blue Ribbon hearing, revealed that 19 flood-control projects were inserted in 2022, 33 in 2023, 24 in 2024, and 59 in 2025, totaling 135 insertions over the past four years.</p><p>He said the province&#x27;s flood-control budget from 2022 to 2025, which was at a total of P12.7 billion in the National Expenditure Programs, ballooned to P30.2 billion on the General Appropriations Acts.</p><p>This means that P17.8 billion worth of flood control projects were inserted during the Congress&#x27; deliberation of the national budget.</p><div><br/></div><div><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1757304337184image.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/></div><div><br/></div><div><strong>FAILED FLOOD CONTROL PROJECTS</strong></div><div><br/></div><p>Dolor said the unconsulted and inappropriate structure of the flood-control projects led to their failure to protect the province from floods.</p><p>“Saan po kayo nakakita ng flood control, pero dinesenyo ng DPWH (Department of Public Works and Highways) na parang boulevard,&quot; he said. </p><p>&quot;Twenty meters na lapad na kalsada, tapos lalagyan ng konting simento sa kanan, konting simento sa kaliwa,&quot; he added.</p><p>Dolor said the only contractor he remembers responsible for the failed flood-control projects since 2023 was Sunwest Inc. </p><p>He noted that the projects were also overpriced, at P1 billion per kilometer, or P1 million per linear meter, citing DPWH. </p><p>He said the agency changed its statement to P700 million per linear meter later on.</p><p>&quot;Overpriced na, substandard pa po. Ito po ang problema,&quot; he said. </p><p>Dolor added that the firms operate at night, &quot;para maitago sa tao.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>OTHER GHOST PROJECTS</strong></div><div><br/></div><p>This, he said, on top of the P189 million worth of ghost project, supposedly in Bgy. Dike in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, under the Discaya-linked Elite General Contractor and Development Corp.</p><p>Another flood control project, the governor said, was supposed to measure 325 meters. But St. Timothy Construction Corporation, responsible for the project, built only 189 meters. </p><p>The firm, he said, is now continuing the project after the anomalies in flood-control projects surfaced. </p><p>&quot;Ngayon po, nung pumutok yung issue, binabalikan po. Para pong manananggal, binabalikan po ang kalahati ng katawan pag tapos na.&quot;</p><p>Quoting fired DPWH Mimaropa Regional Director Engr. Gerald Pacanan, Dolor said the projects were created substandardly because &quot;may kailangan hong bigyan ng 25 percent sa taas,&quot; aside from the 5 percent &quot;parking fee.&quot;</p><p>&quot;I cannot attest to the truth, kung totoo man po o hindi yung sinasabi niya, I am only stating what he told me not once, not thrice, but several occasions,&quot; he said. </p><p>He added that there is a 12 percent for others, totaling 42 percent of the projects&#x27; funds. </p><p>The governor said Oriental Mindoro local government has formulated its own flood mitigation masterplan, which was already endorsed to the Department of Public Works and Highways in 2019, amounting to only P12 billion. </p><p>“Kung sinunod po ang flood-mitigation project ng probinsya, more or less sana solved na ang problema.”</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEOS</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2X2Ss8JTeDc?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></strong><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YS_l_31VXcA?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Oriental Mindoro Gov. Humerlito “Bonz” Dolor on Monday said that a total of P17.8 billion worth of flood-control projects were inserted in the province's budget from 2022 to 2025.</p>

Oriental Mindoro Gov. Humerlito “Bonz” Dolor on Monday said that a total of P17.8 billion worth of flood-control projects were inserted in the province's budget from 2022 to 2025.

P17.8-B flood-control projects 'inserted' in Oriental Mindoro budget from 2022 to 2025: Gov

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P17.8-B flood-control projects 'inserted' in Oriental Mindoro budget from 2022 to 2025: Gov

Marilyn Cahatol,

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Published Sep 08, 2025 01:11 PM PHT

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