Impossible to fix Sunwest’s defective P289.4-M dike project – Dizon

Inquirer.net - Sep 24, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — The allegedly substandard P289.4 million road dike project in Naujan, Oriental Mindoro—which served as the basis for the graft case pending against former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co and other Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials in the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division—would be impossible to fix. This was the opinion of

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