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Ex-Bulacan DPWH engineer admits 'negligence' over ghost project
A former DPWH district engineer in Bulacan, Henry Alcantara, admitted negligence and accountability for signing off on a "ghost" flood control project without personally inspecting it.
Alcantara confessed his lack of inspection during a House of Representatives tri-committee investigation into alleged irregularities in flood control projects nationwide.
Among the projects he approved was a P55-million river wall project in Baliuag, for which P43.4 million and an additional P5.9 million had already been paid to the contractor, SYMS Construction Trading.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had personally inspected the site and expressed dismay over the non-existence of the project.
Alcantara was relieved from his post as Bulacan district engineer in late August and was promoted to DPWH's officer-in-charge of the assistant regional director in Calabarzon.
He confirmed that former Secretary Mark Villar assigned him to the Bulacan district engineer post after he applied for it.
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