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Marcos unveils website for info, feedback on flood control projects

Marcos unveils website for info, feedback on flood control projects

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POST-FLOOD REPAIRS A segment of the river wall along San Juan River between Barangays Roxas and Kalusugan in Quezon City is repaired on Tuesday. President Marcos on Monday reserved the most emphatic part of his State of the Nation Address for shaming unnamed officials pocketing flood-control funds. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE
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MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Monday unveiled a government website where the public can check and report the status of flood-control projects in their areas.

The website, called Sumbong sa Pangulo, lists all flood-control projects under the Marcos administration.

Marcos himself ordered the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to come up with the list during his recent State of the Nation Address (Sona) to determine which ones were failures, unfinished, or ghost projects.

“We have received the list from DPWH. We, I think, have put it into a form that is accessible to the public,” he said.



“And most importantly, it is in a form that the public can use so that they can first identify the projects—the flood control projects that are within their area, within their barangay, so that they can actually go and look at it,” Marcos added.

The website has a street mapping feature to easily check the exact location of the project.

“So, if they know, they can say it’s good. They can say the project isn’t good,” the president said in Filipino.

“Just identify your barangay, and all the flood control projects will come out,” he added.

In his Sona on July 28, Marcos issued a strong pronouncement against officials involved in corruption related to flood control projects, which often result in substandard infrastructure and severe flooding during the heavy rains.

“Recently, I inspected the effects of the southwest monsoon, cyclones Crising, Dante, and Emong. I clearly saw for myself that many flood control projects were failures — they crumbled, and then, there were others that were existing just in the imagination,” Marcos reported

“Let us not pretend anymore. The whole public already knows the racketeering going on involving the projects – kickbacks, initiative, errata, SOP (standard operating procedures), ‘for the boys,'” he also said. /gsg

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