MANILA — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on August 11 disclosed alarm-raising findings from a Marcos-ordered audit of flood mitigation projects implemented from July 2022 to May 2025. A total of 9,855 flood control initiatives were executed nationwide, valued at ₱545.64 billion.
Shockingly, fifteen contractors, representing just a tiny fraction of the 2,409 contractors involved, cornered 20 percent—or roughly ₱100 billion—of the total budget.
Of these:
Five firms—Legacy Construction Corporation, Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Development Corp., St. Timothy Construction Corporation, EGB Construction Corporation, and Road Edge Trading & Development Services—secured projects in nearly every region, prompting suspicions of irregularity.
A staggering 6,021 projects—representing ₱350 billion or 61 percent of the total spending—lacked basic details such as the type of structure built (e.g., dike, drainage, pumping station).
Marcos raised red flags over numerous projects across different locations sharing the same cost and contractor, calling such uniformity “impossible” and citing it as symptomatic of template-style contracting practices.
Further highlighting disparities, the regions with the most flood-control expenditure—Metro Manila (₱52.6 billion), Central Luzon (₱98 billion), and Bicol (₱49.6 billion)—don’t fully align with the nation’s flood-risk rankings, hinting at misallocated investments.
In response, Marcos launched sumbongsapangulo.ph, a public portal where citizens can track local flood-control projects and report anomalies regarding completion, quality, or outright absence . He reiterated his call to blacklist and potentially prosecute contractors tied to flagged or substandard schemes, stressing that no one—even allies—will be exempt from accountability.
With millions of eyes watching, the President emphasized that public vigilance is essential to surface further evidence of irregularities and to ensure genuine reform in flood-control governance.