I will use this post from an engineer in Iligan City. Nakadawat na sad ang mga dagkug bulsa ani.
P2M per camera for Asean meet? Graft probers smell overprice
Jolene Bulambot
Inquirer
CEBU CITY—Graft investigators are also looking into what could be another scam in projects related to the 12th Asean summit held here, this time involving surveillance cameras that could have cost the government at least P2 million each from a total budget of P90 million.
Virginia Palanca-Santiago, acting deputy Ombudsman, said the anti-graft office would look into allegations that the surveillance cameras installed in the cities of Cebu, Lapu-lapu and Mandaue were also overpriced.
The government, through the Department of Public Works and Highways, bought 42 surveillance cameras that were installed in the Asean ceremonial routes—the streets traversed by heads of state and delegates.
The P90 million budget means that each of the 42 pieces of surveillance cameras cost the government P2.14 million each.
The investigation came after Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez ordered the Ombudsman Visayas to expand the scope of its investigation to include other projects undertaken for the summit mainly by the DPWH, which received P1.5 billion for various summit beautification projects.