00:00Senators are highly suspicious of premature insertions sneaked into the national expenditure program by lawmakers colluding with government agencies and third-party vendors.
00:10Insertions in the amount of hundreds of millions and even billions, which lawmakers are befuddled on how to trace their roots are sources, as are Daniel Manalastas reports.
00:19Some Senators flagged a number of flood control projects in certain provinces. During the briefing of Development Budget Coordination Committee to the Senate Committee on Finance for the 2026 proposed budget, Senators noticed suspicious duplicate items with seems like uniform amounts.
00:40Sa Antiquet, Iloilo, same amount, 149,750,000 each at hindi man lang ginawang 149 flat o isa na randa lang sa 150 para may pangkape. Pare-pareho pong halaga hanggang sa huling piso. Lilagyan pa ng butal para hindi po halata.
01:01Ito po, nanggaling po ito sa proposal ng DPWH. Hindi po kaya ng DBM i-check. Wala po sa mandato ng DBM i-check. Wala po kaming ganong expertise to check. We assume that the DPWH already knows what they're doing.
01:22It's the same project na sa GAAD, 2025. The same project na sa NEP, 2026.
01:30Yan, the same. In 2025, construction of flood mitigation structure, Agoa River.
01:35Anong nangyayari kasi, dinadala dito na lumalampas sa scrutiny ninyo.
01:42Dapat mag-scrutinize pa kayo ng mabiigi kasi very obvious naman to eh.
01:46Hindi siya clerical error. Sinasadya itong ganitong panluloko ilagay sa NEP.
01:54Even Senator Banfield Olakson cited this, a red flag.
01:58Green project costs involved billions.
02:00Red flag po ito eh. We are willing to amend and delete all this similarly, parang costed projects.
02:13Kasi yung huling bilang namin, yung 100 items na, no, 373 items na tigwa 100 million, that's already 37.3 billion.
02:24So as of our initial count, nasa mga 50 billion pesos na yung, yung, para-pareho, yung red flag.
02:32Secretary Vince is already investigating ito pong mga doble-doble, pare-parehong pangalan.
02:38Senators also flagged the alleged insertions in the 2026 budget, which allegedly appear even in the National Expenditure Program.
02:47Quadruple Wami. NEP may insertion. House Gav may insertion. Senate version may insertion. BICA may insertion.
02:56Quadruple Wami po ang tama ng Pilipino rito. If you agree.
03:00We agree po.
03:01Contractors have invaded the House of Representatives and congressmen have invaded the contractor construction business.
03:24Ito po yung outcome.
03:26Kasi in NEP pa lang, pinapayagan na sila ng DPWH.
03:30I have received reports na susubukan ng ilan na magpasok o kargahan, magkaroon ng insertion. Senep pa lamang.
03:38Moving forward, rest assured po that we will try to do something po para maiwasan po yung mga ganito problema.
03:47Senator Erwin Tulfo, meanwhile, couldn't help but compare the flood control programs to past pork barrel scams.
03:54Pero what we are seeing here is parang mga pork barrel po ito. In short, this is pork barrel. Plain and simple.
04:02Kasi ang nangyayari ngayon, flood control programs, parang deja vu po ng pork barrel scams ni Napoles.
04:07Daniel Manastas from the National TV for a new and better Philippines.
