MANILA, Philippines — When President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. bared an audit report on the nation’s high flood-control contractors, Pasig Mayor Vico Sotto seen that two of the nation’s two of them are linked to the companies of his former rival, Sarah Discaya.
These two have been Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor and Improvement Corp. and St. Timothy Building Corp., each of which have been named among the many 5 companies that carried out tasks in nearly each area.
“Ngayon, unti-unti nang nalalaman ng taumbayan ang buong katotohanan. Because the president advised them through the SONA, ‘Mahiya naman kayo!’” Sotto stated in his Facebook post on Monday, August 11.
(Now, the general public is discovering little by little the entire fact. Because the president advised them through the SONA, “Be ashamed of yourselves!”)
Sotto then laid out the “six phases of corruption,” figuring out procurement irregularities, use of subpar supplies, tax delinquencies, project-level corruption and lacking enterprise tax funds to the native authorities.
The Pasig Metropolis mayor then promised that the native authorities will inform the president of all of the “purple flags” it sees over flood management tasks.
“Second, we are going to proceed the circumstances towards these folks in order that we are able to accumulate the tens of millions if not billions of pesos that they owe the LGU in enterprise taxes,” he added.
As soon as the Pasig LGU collects the excellent enterprise taxes, Sotto stated it would have the funds to construct amenities for the judiciary and different nationwide authorities businesses with out reducing funding from different packages.
The Discayas
However how are the Discayas related to those two companies? Sotto famous that the household owns or operates a number of construction-related corporations based mostly in Pasig. These embody:
- St. Gerrard Common Contractor and Improvement Corp.
- St. Timothy Building Corp.
- Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor
- Elite Common Contractor and Improvement Corp.
- St. Matthew Common Contractor & Improvement
- Nice Pacific Builders and Common Contractor
- YPR Common Contractor and Building Provide
- Amethyst Horizon Builders and Common Contractor & Dev’t Corp.
- Method Maker OPC
Sotto backed up his declare with a photograph of calling playing cards reportedly belonging to Sarah’s husband, Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya II, revealing his place as chief working officer in a lot of the listed companies.
In 2024, Sotto disclosed that the Pasig Metropolis authorities filed three circumstances towards St. Gerrard for failing to safe occupancy permits, together with three extra circumstances associated to enterprise allow points. The Discayas dismissed these as persecution, contemplating the timing of the filings.
Sotto, nevertheless, maintained that the development agency is going through a number of fraud allegations and contract irregularities, together with one involving a bridge collapse exterior Pasig.
Because the case issues taxes paid to the town, he vowed to uphold the constructing code and implement associated legal guidelines.
The new website monitoring flood management tasks reveals St. Gerrard dealing with 24 tasks throughout the nation price P2.33 billion, scheduled for completion between 2022 and 2024.
Alternatively, St. Timothy manages greater than 105 tasks price P7.32 billion, with deadlines between 2022 and 2025.
In the meantime, Alpha & Omega Common Contractor is listed on the web site with over 40 flood management tasks valued at greater than P3 billion.
Previous points
The workplaces of St. Gerrard Building, St. Matthew Common Contractor, and Alpha & Omega Common Contractor share a four-story compound on F. Manalo Road in Bambang, Pasig.
In 2020, the Division of Public Works and Highways blacklisted St. Gerrard for a 12 months for contract delays. It wasn’t the construction firm’s first time.
The Discaya household says they divested from St. Timothy Building round 2017 or 2018, however they nonetheless personal Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Improvement Corp.
The Proper to Know, Proper Now! Coalition reported that the Discayas have been incorporators of St. Timothy Building, which served because the Fee on Elections’ authentic contractor in a three way partnership with Miru Techniques for the 2025 elections.
The agency pulled out after the Comelec found that Sarah Discaya was working for Pasig Metropolis mayor.
Flood management tasks subject
President Marcos disclosed on Monday the highest 15 building companies awarded authorities flood management contracts throughout his first three years in workplace.
These companies collectively acquired 20% of the P545 billion finances for almost 10,000 tasks from 2022 to 2025. That quantities to about P109 billion cut up amongst them, or a median of roughly P7.27 billion every.
In the meantime, the remaining P436 billion was distributed amongst 2,394 solo contractors, averaging about P182 million per contractor.
This stark finances allocation disparity means lower than 1% of builders accounted for P1 of each P5 spent through the first half of Marcos’ time period for flood management tasks.
Marcos dedicated to reviewing and auditing flood management tasks throughout his time period in his fourth State of the Nation Deal with (SONA) after issues mounted over billions allotted regardless of restricted seen outcomes.
