Senator Christopher “Bong” Go believes that these concerned within the anomalies surrounding flood management tasks have to be punished.
“Sa laki ng pondong pinag-uusapan dito, hindi sapat ang audit o reporting sa mga ginagawang flood management tasks. Hindi sapat ang explanasyon lang mula sa mga contractor o DPWH [Department of Public Works and Highways]. Dapat po’y mayroong managot dito at dapat po’y maging accountable po sila,” the Duterte-allied lawmaker mentioned throughout a Senate session on August 20.
(With the big quantity of finances we’re speaking about right here, auditing or reporting weren’t sufficient for the flood management tasks. An evidence from the contractors or the DPWH alone wouldn’t suffice. Somebody must be held accountable for this.)
Among the many prime contractors named by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. that obtained a lion’s share of flood management tasks was the firmed owned or linked to the household of defeated Pasig Metropolis mayoral candidate Sarah Discaya.
The household of Go turned out to be the Discayas’ enterprise companions from years again. The senator is now sitting because the vice chairperson of the Senate blue ribbon committee that’s probing into the flood management tasks.
CLTG Builders, owned by Go’s father Deciderio, partnered with the Discayas of Pasig for numerous infrastructure tasks within the Davao Area amounting to over P800 million in 2017. Go was former president Rodrigo Duterte’s particular assistant on the time and so they had simply taken over in June 2016.
Based mostly on Rappler’s analysis, CLTG Builders entered right into a three way partnership with St. Gerrard Building Normal Contractor and Growth Company and bagged 5 infrastructure tasks within the Davao Area amounting to over P816 million (P816,981,062.81). St. Gerrard is owned by Sarah’s husband, Pacifico “Curlee” Felizario Discaya II.
Go’s father represented the 2 development corporations and signed the contracts with the DPWH as “Approved Managing Officer,” paperwork obtained by Rappler confirmed. The 5 joint tasks have been supposed for street development and had already been accomplished, in line with the database of the DPWH.
Searched for remark, Go informed Rappler: “As I’ve mentioned quite a few occasions, as early as 2018, in 2021, 2024 and now, I’ve nothing to do with their enterprise. Kaya sila ang dapat na tanungin ninyo, at hindi ako (That’s why you need to ask them, not me).”
Rappler additionally despatched a textual content message to Curlee Discaya and reached out to him through Viber. We’ll replace this story as soon as we obtain a press release from him.
Partnering with huge companies
The quantity of CLTG’s 5 tasks with St. Gerrard in 2017 was a lot larger in comparison with the full quantity of tasks it bought within the area the yr earlier than (2016), based mostly on our computations.
In 2016, CLTG secured a complete of 12 tasks amounting to solely over P352 million (particularly P352,856,053.38). This was about P400 million much less in comparison with the contracts it bagged with the Discaya agency.
However by the tip of 2017, CLTG secured over P3 billion (a complete of three,047,913,365.05) in contracts with the DPWH. The worth of its contracts grew by near P2.7 billion (or P2,695,057,311.67) in a span of solely a yr. It’s because other than St. Gerrard, it entered into partnerships with different huge companies.
Its greatest joint partnership was with Manila-based Three W Builders Inc., bagging eight tasks amounting to about P1.2 billion (particularly P1,177,888,565.58), adopted by St. Gerrard.
CLTG had three tasks with Davao-based Rely Building and Provide in 2017 amounting to over P407 million (or P407,096,564.86). The Go agency had two tasks then with Alfrego Builders (owned by Senator Go’s brother, Alfredo) amounting to over P178 million (P178,036,709.50), and one with Dreirich Builders with over P71 million (P71,208,315).
A 2018 investigative report by the Philippine Heart for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) on the Go household’s agency famous that St. Gerrard, Three W Builders, and Rely Building have been among the many prime 10 contractors within the Davao Area on the time.
CLTG was the one one with a B license issued by the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB), whereas the remainder held between single A to triple A licenses. In keeping with PCIJ, CLTG by itself was unable to safe tasks over P100 million due to its class however managed to take action in 2017 by partnering with larger contractors that possessed the next classification of licenses.
“However what CLTG did in 2017 to get extra of those tasks was to group up with different larger contractors to fulfill contracting capability necessities of the DPWH Area XI’s larger tasks,” the PCIJ report mentioned. “Two procurement specialists interviewed individually by PCIJ agreed {that a} contractor could certainly enter right into a three way partnership with one other contractor when capability is already insufficient.”
The PCIJ report additionally mentioned that CLTG, St. Gerrard, and Three W have been among the many contractors within the Davao Area that recorded delayed tasks again then.
By 2018, CLTG’s contracts dipped and it secured solely three tasks amounting to over P192 million (P192,632,221). All tasks have been in partnership with Davao-based Rely Building.
In a span of three years — from 2016 to 2018 — the Go household’s CLTG bagged a complete of 42 tasks within the Davao Area amounting to virtually P3.6 billion (or P3,593,401,639.25). Twenty of those tasks have been solo contracts, whereas 22 have been joint ventures.
What occurred to CLTG, St. Gerrard?
After its three wonderful years, CLTG stopped bidding for DPWH contracts. From 2019 to the current, “CLTG Builders” now not seems within the DPWH checklist of contractors that bagged authorities tasks, and even in PCAB’s checklist of licensed contractors.
Go grew to become senator in 2019 and was reelected in 2025.
In 2018, then-special assistant Go referred to as the PCIJ report “malicious,” saying that he by no means influenced bidding or awarding processes on the DPWH. Go added that his father and brother have been simply “exercising their rights” after they joined the bidding.
Former opposition lawmaker Antonio Trillanes IV, then a sitting senator, amplified the PCIJ report and mentioned that he would suggest a probe into the offers.
In 2024, Trillanes filed felony complaints of graft and plunder in opposition to Duterte and Go in relation to the mentioned offers. In keeping with Trillanes’ criticism, based mostly on what he mentioned have been extra data submitted to him, CLTG and Alfrego have been “awarded authorities tasks, from 2007 to 2018, valued at a staggering quantity of not less than P6.6 billion.”
The criticism remains to be pending with the Division of Justice. Duterte, in the meantime, is presently detained in The Hague over his crimes in opposition to humanity case triggered by his struggle on medicine.
Whereas CLTG stopped taking part in authorities infrastructure tasks, Alfrego continued its transactions with the DPWH. Between 2023 and 2024, the agency bagged flood management tasks amounting to over P327 million (or P327,222,793.67), based mostly on the Sumbong sa Pangulo web site.
As for St. Gerrard, the agency didn’t shut any authorities contract with the DPWH for the Davao Area from 2019 to 2021. It returned in 2022 with two tasks, and one in 2023.
From 2024 as much as the current, the Discaya-owned agency recorded zero tasks for the Davao Area. It has, nevertheless, been capable of show why it’s thought to be one of many greatest contractors within the area and within the nation.
All in all, it bagged a complete of 46 tasks from 2016 to 2023, amounting to virtually P5 billion (or P4,971,338,744.20).
Though St. Gerrard itself shouldn’t be a part of the highest 15 contractors talked about by the President, different companies owned by, or associated to, the Discayas — St. Timothy Building Company and Alpha & Omega Gen. Contractor & Growth Corp. — are on the checklist.
Sarah Discaya was absent throughout the first Senate listening to. How would Go as vice chairperson of the blue ribbon committee cope with the contractor whom his household had partnered with earlier than? – Rappler.com
