MANILA, Philippines — Mark Allan Arevalo, Wawao Builders general manager, invoked his right against self-incrimination when asked whether his firm was involved in ghost flood control projects.
Wawao Builders exec ‘not sure’ if company has flood control project in Bulacan
Arevalo was among the contractors who attended the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee investigation on questionable flood control projects., This news data comes from:http://ocwqhxo.erlvyiwan.com
"I invoke my right against self- incrimination," Arevalo said when Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada asked whether they had flood projects in Bulacan.
"Hindi po ako sigurado (I'm not sure)," Arevalo said when Estrada asked him if his firm has flood control projects in Bulacan.
Estrada said that Wawao has 42 projects with the Department of Public Works and Highways.
"The bulk of your projects is in Bulacan, [you have] two in San Juan [City], in Quezon City, Ilocos Norte, Kalookan [City], and Laguna. And they have identical [project] cost: P77 million," he told Arevalo.
- Go Negosyo, CFO push migrant empowerment
- Madagascar welcomes home skulls of Indigenous warriors taken by French colonial troops 128 years ago
- Tax bureau hunts down contractors over questionable flood control deals
- UK's mass facial-recognition roll-out alarms rights groups
- Chinese warships shadow Philippine, Australian, Canadian drills in Zambales
- Roxas matriarch Judy Araneta-Roxas, 91
- 2,000 North Korean troops killed in Russia deployment: Seoul spy agency
- MMDA proposes rainwater facilities in Camp Aguinaldo to mitigate EDSA flooding
- Marcos soon to create commission to probe flood control projects
- P1.7-M shabu seized in Taguig buy-bust
