TABUK CITY, Kalinga - The local chapter of the SONA project watchdog Bantay Lansangan (BL) is disappointed that even after the DPWH effected changes in the administration and supervision of SONA projects in the province, the quality of implementation has not improved.
The group noted in its recent report submitted to the regional SONA project office and the BL central office that nothing has changed from the time of their initial monitoring activities late last year as far as the quality of the work is concerned.
“It is even worse now because there are several blocks where the rain scoured the pavement because apparently, the workers poured the cement while it was raining. This did not happen before,” Rev. Luis Aoas, chairman of the Kalinga and Apayao Religious Sector Association (KARSA) which acts as the local chapter of the BL, told the media.
In their report which was also signed by representatives of the DPWH-Kalinga who joined the joint monitoring activity, the group strongly recommended, among other things, that the seven blocks of pavement in the Tinglayan-Suyo section and two blocks in the Suyo-Tangadan section which they said were scoured by the rain be removed and replaced at the expense of the contractor.
They also urged the removal and replacement of the undersized steel bars of the Mamaga box culvert and likewise the improperly constructed riprap at Bangad Centro, Tinglayan.
BL-Kalinga also criticized the lack of supervision on the part of engineers assigned to the SONA projects in the province saying that during the time they inspected the multi-billion project on June 17, only one SONA engineer was in the site and that they only met the other engineers going to the project site very late in the afternoon.
“Workers (especially on riprap) take instructions from contractors and not from the engineers assigned giving poor quality of project to end user. Project engineers assigned in the area must be present to properly supervise workers especially in critical times like the pouring of cement,” the report said in one part.
“We are very disappointed because we expected that the changes made by Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane in the management of the project would improve the quality of the work but the opposite has happened. The regional director has been changed and local DPWH engineers have been assigned to supervise the construction but things only got worse. During the first month after the local engineers took over, the work improved but it was only for a while because now, it appears that things are worse than before,” Aoas said.
Aoas related that when Ebdane inspected the project on January 2, the BL-Kalinga requested that local engineers take over the supervision of the SONA project from the regional DPWH engineers because of the group’s observation at the time that the projects supervised by local DPWH engineers were better implemented than the SONA projects.
“Ebdane told us that that it is against the policies of the agency but nonetheless granted our request. We also asked for the replacement of the regional director and his assistant because of our observation that they had been remiss in the proper implementation of the SONA project. We now have a new regional director but the flaws in the implementation noted before still remain,” Aoas lamented. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW
The group noted in its recent report submitted to the regional SONA project office and the BL central office that nothing has changed from the time of their initial monitoring activities late last year as far as the quality of the work is concerned.
“It is even worse now because there are several blocks where the rain scoured the pavement because apparently, the workers poured the cement while it was raining. This did not happen before,” Rev. Luis Aoas, chairman of the Kalinga and Apayao Religious Sector Association (KARSA) which acts as the local chapter of the BL, told the media.
In their report which was also signed by representatives of the DPWH-Kalinga who joined the joint monitoring activity, the group strongly recommended, among other things, that the seven blocks of pavement in the Tinglayan-Suyo section and two blocks in the Suyo-Tangadan section which they said were scoured by the rain be removed and replaced at the expense of the contractor.
They also urged the removal and replacement of the undersized steel bars of the Mamaga box culvert and likewise the improperly constructed riprap at Bangad Centro, Tinglayan.
BL-Kalinga also criticized the lack of supervision on the part of engineers assigned to the SONA projects in the province saying that during the time they inspected the multi-billion project on June 17, only one SONA engineer was in the site and that they only met the other engineers going to the project site very late in the afternoon.
“Workers (especially on riprap) take instructions from contractors and not from the engineers assigned giving poor quality of project to end user. Project engineers assigned in the area must be present to properly supervise workers especially in critical times like the pouring of cement,” the report said in one part.
“We are very disappointed because we expected that the changes made by Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane in the management of the project would improve the quality of the work but the opposite has happened. The regional director has been changed and local DPWH engineers have been assigned to supervise the construction but things only got worse. During the first month after the local engineers took over, the work improved but it was only for a while because now, it appears that things are worse than before,” Aoas said.
Aoas related that when Ebdane inspected the project on January 2, the BL-Kalinga requested that local engineers take over the supervision of the SONA project from the regional DPWH engineers because of the group’s observation at the time that the projects supervised by local DPWH engineers were better implemented than the SONA projects.
“Ebdane told us that that it is against the policies of the agency but nonetheless granted our request. We also asked for the replacement of the regional director and his assistant because of our observation that they had been remiss in the proper implementation of the SONA project. We now have a new regional director but the flaws in the implementation noted before still remain,” Aoas lamented. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW
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