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While the Senate plans to spend lavishly on its new home, many students are being schooled outside proper classrooms – exposed to the elements, sometimes with only verdant trees protecting them from the rain or scorching sun
The public spat between Senators Nancy Binay and Alan Peter Cayetano over the escalating cost of the New Senate Building has culminated into the former filing an ethics complaint against the latter.
Granting that Cayetano has the interest of the public in mind in trying to ferret out the truth about what appears to be a pricey tag on the NSB, I found it disgusting for him to utter such unparliamentary language. Instead of conducting a fair and decent hearing, his reason for name-calling is beyond me and beneath the position to which he was elected.
The NSB was to be built in Taguig with an initial budget of ₱8.9 billion. Costs have since escalated, with the current estimate reaching ₱23.379 billion. Of this amount, ₱8.9 billion is just for the core and shell of the building; ₱2.5 billion for the fit-out; and to complete the project, another ₱10.3 billion would have to be spent. Land acquisition from the Bases Conversion and Development Authority was at ₱1.6 billion.
The construction covered by the second phase includes installation of tiles, ceiling works, the elevators, generator sets, fire protection and escalators. Sen. Peter Cayetano was one of the key Senate figures who investigated Nancy Binay’s brother, then-Makati Mayor Jejomar “Junjun” Binay who in 2014, was accused of padding the cost of the P2.2 billion Makati Parking Building by 300%. And then, Binay’s sister, concurrent Makati Mayor Abigail and Peter’s wife, Taguig Mayor Lani, went head to head in a battle of turf which the latter won.
These numbers should be a cause for concern for every tax-paying Filipino: The proposed landscaping cost of ₱663.2 million can build 265 classrooms. More than half a billion pesos has been allotted to a broadcasting system. Now, pray tell, is the Senate going to put up its own radio/TV station? How many broadcast studios are they planning to put up? One for each of the 24 of them? And then, the completion of NSB requires another ₱10.3 billion.
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