In the meantime, and while Chatto and his group yet feel it is most necessary at this time to familiarize the people with their programs of government, truths can wait to come from behind the cases of anomalies involving certain big projects in Bohol. These include the following:
1) Bayongan Dam---The most expensive dam ever built on Earth. According to then NEDA Director General Romulo Neri, the dam is the most expensive dam ever built in the world that caused the government to lose more than P3.6 billion
Aumentado defended the project. The late Press Sec. Cerge Remonde had then claimed that the governor had made several follow-ups and guarded the issuance of checks. Aumentado had sought Remonde’s assistance.
2) P165 million Talibon Dam---The Boholanos Against Corruption and Oppression led by architect Bobby Cericos, engineer Nilo Sarigumba and lawyer Timmy Cabatos had raised this issue to the Ombudsman.
3) Malinao Dam Spilllway---The dam falls short of its original spillway height by two meters, causing the government to lose P1.4 billion. This is aside from another amount about to be loaned for the upgrading works costing P800 million.
4) The Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project (BCRIP), roads constructed by contractor RSD, and other road projects---Aumentado owes the Boholanos many explanations for the many substandard parts of BCRIP which were reworked (back jobs) when the budget of the project almost doubled the locally-funded projects.
Favorite big-time contractors Hanjin, CM Pancho, China and Gorones ought to follow international standard.
Local road projects which were implemented by other favorite contractor such as the RSD had work quality lesser than substandard. Cracks were everywhere from Dagohoy to Trinidad.
There was apparent waste of public money. Instead of demanding from the contractor to redo the bad works, Aumentado had secured additional budget for the asphalt overlay of the substandard project with reported overprice. In cases as this, contractors could pocket government money twice.
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