'It’s about time that somebody has to speak up, and unravel a lot of things that are going on with our public works, especially our infrastructure because this is public money,' says Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong.
BAGUIO CITY – Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong has urged lawmakers to probe substandard public works projects in his city as well as in other areas in the country, following the collapse of a road slope protection project along Kennon Road, rendering the area impassable.“It’s about time that somebody has to speak up, and unravel a lot of things that are going on with our public works, especially our infrastructure because this is public money,” Magalong said.
“I’ve been talking to several mayors and we have the same sentiment. They have told me, ‘Mayor, probably you can take the lead. You start it, and we will support,’ they said,” Magalong said. Kennon Road has been subject to multiple efforts to turn the road into an all-weather road, with a rehabilitation bill signed into law in January 2022.
The portions in question cost some P850 million to fund the rehabilitation of roads with slips, road collapse, and landslides; put up of rock netting and slope protection; replacement of a demonstration bridge; and channel excavation and flood control along Bued River.due to inclement weather, with the latest incident on May 9 keeping the road closed to date.
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