After 10 years, Contractor gets full payment for Capitol’s Legislative Bldg

CEBU, Philippines - After ten years, the contractor of the Cebu Provincial Legislative building will be fully paid at last.

The Provincial Board has approved the amount of P1.3 million to cover the final payment for Dakay Construction and Development Corporation (DCDC).

Through the resolution sponsored by Board Member Peter John Calderon, the PB also authorized Gov. Hilario Davide III to charge the said amount against the development fund for this year.

The Province of Cebu has appropriated P63 million for the construction of the Legislative and Engineering Building in 2003.

Calderon said that the appropriation has long been utilized.

The construction of the legislative building was started last January 6, 2003 and was finished on August 22, 2004.

The late vice governor Gregorio Sanchez Jr. and the PB members occupied the building in the last quarter of 2005.

The structural safety of the building was earlier raised when the 4.2-magnitude earthquake rocked Cebu in 2007.

Sanchez had lashed out at DCDC for continually ignoring their call to correct the defects of the building. He complained about the cracks on the wall and molding on the ceiling which earlier fell.

The Provincial Engineering Office has refurbished the crack on the floor tiles at the third level of the legislative building after then governor, now third district Rep. Gwendolyn Garcia, asked the office to correct the defective portion of the P60-million legislative building, particularly at the Office of the Vice Governor.

The alleged structural defects of the building have been the subject of a complaint of a certain Amado Gochoco of Mandaue City before the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas.

Gochoco sought the assistance of the anti-graft office regarding the alleged leaking, widening cracks and other defects of the legislative building.—(FREEMAN)