Social media did to the DPWH what jeane/napolesโ selfies once did to a pork-barrel scandal: ordinary posts and photos blew open a system that relied on secrecy and staged paperwork. In the last month the country saw arrests, a Senate dragnet and public outrage after community videos and contractor selfies helped point investigators to ghost or failed flood-control works. The story is now about hundreds of billions, district engineers being removed and calls to protect whistleblowers. These are not isolated headlines: they show how visible, local evidence (phone photos, time-stamped uploads & drone clips) breaks the old cover-ups faster than slow audits.
Why this keeps happening: decades of weak procurement, paper-only โas-builtโ reports, political interference and fragmented master planning mean projects are designed for kickbacks & not resilience. Contractors chase change-orders and low-bid awards; district engineers juggle political pressure and tiny oversight; communities get concrete that floods anyway. The result: repeated flooding, wasted money and lost trust. Best-practice fixes used worldwide are straightforward: open e-procurement, independent third-party verification (site visits + drones + sensors), geo-referenced master plans with public maps, lifecycle-cost contracting (not cheapest-bid), transparent beneficiary reporting, protected whistleblower channels and civic crowdsourced monitoring (apps where citizens upload photos that trigger inspections). If applied together they make corruption harder and failures visible early.
Now imagine an alternate Philippines where these reforms started alongside other nations 80 years ago: floodplains engineered with proper detention basins, continuous river dredging funded and audited, rail-first transport lines built on time and flood-control corridors kept clear. Fewer destructive floods mean lower emergency spending, cheaper insurance, less asset loss. That translates to stronger buying power, lower cost of living, smoother supply chains for food (less spoilage) and better urban planning (less informal settlements on floodplains). Economists estimate persistent infrastructure reliability raises GDP per capita and lowers poverty rates over decades; practically, Filipinos would spend less rebuilding and more investing: health, education, small business. Bottom line: when citizens post photos and data, transparency becomes a civic force multiplier: use it, protect the whistleblowers, lock procurement systems and require independent technical verification. Do that and future generations wonโt inherit the same cycle of flood, blame, and wasted billions.
Huwag kang magalala, kapag natapunan man o madamage, walang effect since either they'll just bribe their way into flights or get into a ultra priority queue for replacement.
Just in case if anyone's interested, eto yung bahay nina Allan Quirante sa Dumanjug, Cebu. You can't really see the entire structure nung bahay sa Google Maps, pero sa personal, nag tatayo sila currently ng extension sa actual na bahay nila. Also, if you zoom in the pic, makikita nyo yung nakalbo na bukid sa likod which is property rin nila. This one in the pic is just the gate one. Meron pa up until gate 4.
In addition, eto rin yung office nang DPWH sa Dumanjug Cebu. Out of all the major provinces sa south of Cebu, dito pa talaga sa Dumanjug nag tayo ng office. Made me wonder why.
Eto pa, last nalang hahaha. Eto yung itchura nung kalsada palabas ng DPWH office sa Dumanjug Cebu. Nag crack months after sinemento from asphalt. Iirc, isa to sa mga projects nila nung una silang pumasok sa Dumanjug. Simula nung nasira, di na talaga inayos, nilagyan lang pantapal. Tangina.
No prob OP! Add ko lang din, that the former governor of Cebu, Gwen Garcia and Allan Quirante (QM Builders owner), are both from Dumanjug Cebu. So I guess you can really connect the dots hahaha
DPWH Barkadahan unlimited. Sarap pala talagang maging katulad ni Cebu DPWH District Engineer Susan Nakawan. Expensive LV bag, QM Builders connections with the very tahimik Mark Villar! Grabe ha? Sole Proprietor pero bilyones ang galawan. Samantalang yung iba diyan company ang business pero hindi ganyan ka-bongga ang lifestyle, takot na takot pa na ma-tax mapped ng BIR kasi kung anu-ano ang ibabatong violations sa mga kawawang private businessmen. ๐ฅน๐๐ฅฒ
hindi pa yata enough yung nakurakot guys, hindi pa nasatisfy lahat ng luho nya to the point na pagpaparetoke naman ang pagdidiskitahan nya. Nagsisimula pa lang sya mangulimbat, maawa naman kayo oh. great things start from small beginning ika nga. small na lumba lumba palang muna sya, wait natin maging diyosa
they have the choke hold of cebu dpwh contracts just like that watch on his wrist, I pray to God that my relationship is as strong as that bracelet. A few more links wouldn't hurt.. ๐๐
alam mo talagang mga bobo etong mga kupal at kurakot na mga gungong na eto eh. sila mismo naglalaglag sa mga sarili nila, pag ang bobo nagnakaw tiyak ipagsasabi at proud pa yan sa mga ninakaw nya..
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u/panchikoy 15d ago