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Greater than half of Centerways Development’s flood management tasks have been in Senator Chiz Escudero’s dwelling province of Sorsogon and inside his district
It’s raining flood management venture contracts for Senate President Chiz Escudero’s greatest marketing campaign backer.
Lawrence R. Lubiano — the president of Centerways Development and Growth Inc. — was Escudero’s prime donor within the 2022 elections, dropping P30 million into the senator’s marketing campaign funds, primarily based on his official Assertion of Contributions and Expenditures. That’s 20% of P146.5 million money contributions acquired by Escudero.
Quick ahead to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration, Centerways Development is swimming in authorities offers.
From 2021 to 2024, the corporate reeled in P5.16 billion value of flood management tasks. The Sorsogon-based building agency solely had 5 flood management contracts in 2021, however in 2022, it secured 44 contracts, a virtually ninefold leap.
Centerways Development ranked seventh among the many top 15 flood control project contractors named by President Marcos for the interval July 2022 to Could 2025.
And guess the place majority of the work is going on? 96% of Centerways Development’s tasks from 2021 to 2024 are within the Bicol region, three others are in Central Visayas.
Of the 54 tasks in Sorsogon, 36 are within the first district, Escudero’s long-time political turf. Since 1987, it has been dominated in turns by Chiz, his father Salvador, his mom Evelina, and his sister Maria Bernadette.
Earlier than Chiz returned to the Senate in 2022, he served as governor of Sorsogon from 2019 to 2022.
President Marcos, in his final State of the Nation Tackle, made a giant present of vowing to crack down on corruption in flood control projects.
“Mga kickback, mga initiative, errata, SOP, for the boys. Kaya sa mga nakikipagsabwatan upang kunin ang pondo ng bayan at nakawin ang kinabukasan ng ating mga mamamayan, mahiya naman kayo sa inyong kapwa Pilipino!” Marcos mentioned this within the grand plenary of the Batasang Pambansa.
(Kickbacks, initiatives, errata, SOP, for the boys. To those that connive to take authorities funds and steal the way forward for our individuals, really feel some disgrace in direction of your fellow Filipinos!)
Behind him on the podium sat Senate President Escudero and Home Speaker Martin Romualdez, the President’s cousin.
Was that only a common warning or a pointed dig on the man (or males) proper behind him? – Rappler.com
