Durky problems with flood control such as this dredger surgery in a channel in Binondo, Manila, which leads to a flood of Pasig River, has become the heated center of the national conversation after widespread floods last month, and President Marcos called for a review of her multibillion peso contracts. – Marianne Bermudez
Manila, Philippine-one of the 15 best contractors who included most of the country's flood protection projects as part of the Marcos administration, had a paid capital that only corresponds to a small fraction of the billions of pesos in contracts that the Filipino government had won.
MG Samidan Construction and Development Corp. was founded on March 7, 2019 and had a paid capital of 250,000 peseters based on the records of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By 2025 it was the 12th top contractor based on the value of contracts of flood control projects in the country. The majority of his 58 contracts are located in the Cordillera region and was worth a total of 5.02 billion peseters from 2022 to 2025.
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58 contracts
An analysis of the data published by President Marcos showed that 35 of MG Samidan's 58 contracts in the province of Abra. It also has 11 projects in La Union, six in the province of Mountain, four in Benguet and two in Pangasinan.
The company belongs to the Samidan family and is based in Sinto, Bauko in the province of Mountain. The Inquirer tried to reach the telephone numbers registered with the SEC and on their Facebook pages, but did not receive an answer.
When the president exposed his list, he had given some possible red flags in flood control projects, including their structure in areas that are not necessarily known to be at risk of flood.
One of the largest projects in MG Samidan is to build a flood control structure along the Abra River basin in Barangay San Jose in Manabo, Abra, worth 164.75 million Peseten, his second major contract.
A look at the nationwide operational assessment of dangers from the University of the Philippines (Noah) showed that the risk of flooding in the region was “little or no”.
Abra together with Isabela, Sorsogon, Tarlac, Camarines Sur, Negros Occidental, Albay and Manila complete the top -10 list of top -15 operators.
7 projects, the same price
Based on the national adaptation plan of the Philippines 2023-2050, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, Tarlac, Bulacan, Metro Manila, Maguindanao, North Cotabato, Oriental Mindoro and Ilocos Norte.
MG Samidan also has seven projects for the same contract price – P96.5 million – in three different provinces: Abra, Benguet and Mountain Province.
Three of the Abra contracts seem to be part of a larger flood control project along the river basin along Bucay. However, it is different from the contracts in Benguet and mountain province.
In a briefing from the House Committee on Public Accounts on Flood Control projects across the country at the beginning of this week, the Sub -State Secretary Catalina Cabral from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced that some contracts have the same amount because they relate to similar structures that correspond to the standard costs and the detailed price analysis from the units.
The director of the DPWH region 1, Ronneln Tan, added that it was also possible that the regional office submitted similar budget proposals that were used by the contractors as the basis for their tender price.
Similar to Pharmally
The last time that a company made aware of a small -paid capital in relation to the state projects, the attention of pharmaceuticals in 2020 was almost 1 billion peset contracts for various pandemia supply. A significant part of the amount came from the procurement service of the Ministry of Household and Management (PS-DBM).
In an investigation by the Senate, it was found that these orders were awarded by negotiated procurement, a method that is normally used in emergencies, and not by competitive commandments.
The value of these contracts was more than 1,200 percent higher than the company's capital paid of 650,000 peseters.
These strong differences caused the Senate to conclude that Pharallally was a “preferred, albeit thinly capital” supplier, who pronounced concerns about corruption and a lack of proper checking by government officials. The investigation also discovered allegations of overvaluation and delivery of inferior medical care.
In 2023, the Ombudsman's office was enough for the former PS DBM Unterstate Secretary Lloyd Christopher Lao, the former director of the PS DBM procurement group and former deputy Ombudsmann Warren Rex Liong and other civil servants in the suspected irregular procurement of COVID-19 Areas of pharmaceutical systems that had to be involved in pharmonium from covid-19 maintenance.
The ombudsmann also submitted transplant against the former PS DBM procurement management officer Paul Jasper de Guzman and the pharmacular managers Mohit Dargani, Twinkle Dargani, Linconn Ong, Huang Tzu Yen and Justine Garado.
Examination, probe set
At the beginning of this month, Marcos ordered the DPWH to check all flood protection projects built since the beginning of his administration in 2022.
The house, which is composed of the public accounts, good government and public work, is also intended to open its own investigation into allegedly irregular flood control projects, which was largely triggered by the fourth state of the nation of the President, in which he threatened not to sign a general appropriation that was not oriented with the national starting program.
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Marcos also lambasters and contractors who benefited from flood control projects who could not demolish the floods during the rush of the monsoon. /CB