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BY PRINCE GOLEZ, Manila Reporter
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MANILA – The Senate will investigate the excavation of the newly asphalted Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue (Diversion Road) and other roads in Iloilo City.
“Highly questionable” was how Senate President Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III described the excavations.
Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue in Mandurriao district is being excavated again for a new road concreting project by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 6, Pimentel said.
In 2014, the DPWH also initiated a road widening project on the same avenue when Iloilo City hosted two ministerial meetings during the 2015 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit, he said.
“Our Public Works people are spending public money as if it is going out of style tomorrow to the prejudice of many rural areas where these projects are badly needed,” said the Senate president.
Pimentel said he wants to know why the department allowed the “indiscriminate” demolition of usable roads.
It is a “complete waste of public funds,” which should have been allocated for the repair of “bad roads” in other parts of the country, he stressed./PN
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