MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson has uncovered two separate items that appear to be double appropriations for the same infrastructure project in Taguig City, indicating one of the two may be deemed a ghost project.
Lacson said that his team found three additional P100-million slope protection projects under the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA), raising to P2.385 billion the total insertions in Taguig City, the political bailiwick of Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano.
"From P2.085B as earlier reported we found three-P100M additional slope protection projects for a new total of P2.385B insertions under the 2025 GAA," Lacson said in a statement posted on social media.
"Two items appear to be double appropriations, involving two-P100M for the same slope protection project. One of the two must be ghost," he added.
Lacson earlier flagged at least two suspected ghost infrastructure projects as well as a staggering number of slope protection and drainage projects, most of them costing P100 million each, with a combined value of P2.085 billion in Taguig.
