THE Senate should be ashamed of the cost of its new luxurious offices in posh Bonifacio Global City. It would be scandalous if it did not investigate this disgrace to the nation.
When the project was first announced in 2018, then-senator Panfilo Lacson, who was in charge of it, said the planned Senate building would cost taxpayers only P4.8 billion. I immediately wrote a column — the first of six such pieces from 2018 to 2022 on what I called a monument to the Senate 's profligacy — reporting that my sources in the construction business laughed at his estimate and that it would at least cost P10 billion.
3 billion cost only revealed now, and why was Escudero shocked when he was given this figure? Or was it former Senate president Juan Miguel Zubiri to whom they gave their reports and to no other senator? Binay, however, should inhibit herself from commenting on this issue since the contractor for the project is Hilmarc, the same contractor for the Makati City Hall Building 2 when her father was mayor and accused of making money out of that project.
Senate Building: Cost Zoomed From P4.8B To P23.3B
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