SEN. Panfilo Lacson seems not done yet in unmasking his colleague, former Senate president Alan Peter Cayetano, who he said belonged in jail after the latter questioned his integrity.
On Wednesday, Lacson bared yet more potential anomalies involving infrastructure projects in Taguig City, the political bailiwick of Cayetano.
Lacson said his team’s latest findings found three additional P100-million slope protection projects under the 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA), raising to P2.385 billion the total insertions for projects in Taguig City.
Moreover, two separate items appeared to be double appropriations for the same project, indicating one of the two may be deemed a ghost project, he said.
‘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. Two items appear to be double appropriations, involving two P100M for the same slope protection project. One of the two must be ghost,’ he said in a post on X.
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.
Over the weekend, Lacson said their initial findings on anomalous infrastructure projects in Taguig City included projects involving firms owned by the Discayas, the controversial contractor couple, but implemented by another contractor under a 5-percent royalty scheme.
The findings also included similar projects contracted to Topnotch Catalyst Builders-one of the top 15 flood control project contractors President Marcos named last year.
The projects including those involving Discaya-owned firms dated back to 2019 and 2020, when Cayetano represented Taguig in the House of Representatives and Speaker.
Lacson had vowed to pursue the investigation to its ‘logical conclusion’ after Cayetano attacked his integrity in a Facebook Live broadcast.