At the downstream of Cebu’s Cotcot River, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Cebu 5th District Engineering Office (DEO) initiated a multimillion-peso flood control project intended to protect residents in Sitio Sulima, Barangay Cotcot, Liloan during severe flooding scenarios.
It didn’t during 2025’s Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) onslaught.
The said project was initiated on February 16, 2024, and was completed on December 26, 2024. For a total contract cost of P96.4 million, the DPWH Cebu 5th DEO built an embankment, set up a sidewalk, and installed solar-powered street lights.
This project was awarded to St. Matthew Gen. Contractor & Development Corp. and MC Geometric Proportions Inc. St. Matthew is owned by the Discayas — among the country’s most notorious government contractors, who are now facing malversation cases.
Curlee Discaya is facing a malversation case for his involvement in the anomalous release of P53.9 million for a flood control project in Calumpit, Bulacan. Sarah Discaya was also named in the complaint but is currently facing a separate malversation case stemming from a P96-million ghost project in Davao Occidental.
