Bohol Vice Governor Julius Caesar Herrera is willing to address the country's top leaders in Malacanang via a privilege speech, if the national Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) accepts the "unfinished" controversial Tagbilaran City drainage infrastructure project.
Herrera gave the statement a day after accusing the Highway District Engineer's Office of "sleeping on the job" for its failure to "oversee" the project as implemented by Hanjin Construction.
Herrera, who said the DPWH is mandated to supervise and check all government and public construction refused to believe that local highways office did not know of the illegal taps.
"They could have stopped the contractor right there and then," he said in a separate radio interview.
Asked to comment on the Herrera tag, DPWH District Engineer Celestino Adlaon, reasoned out that the local DPWH has no participation in the implementation of the project.
The Philippine-Japan Highways Loan Project Management Office (PJHL-PMO) and the national DPWH, its being foreign funded supervises the project, Adlaon bared.
He however admitted his men occasionally "look over the project implementation".
According to Engr. Adlaon, the city drainage project was covered by the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project and contracted by Hanjin.
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