TACLOBAN CITY — Members of the regional project monitoring committee of the Regional Development Council in Eastern Visayas has urged the Office of the Ombudsman and the Commission on Audit to look into the contracts between the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines and the private contractor of the new terminal building of Daniel Z. Romualdez airport here.

This comes as RDC private sector representative for multimedia communication Buenaventura Go-Soco disclosed that there were glaring red flags in the implementation of the project which should not be ignored as there are prescribed processes under the law on how this should be addressed.

Go-Soco is referring to the variations made to the original contract to make the contractor appear compliant on schedule and the scope of work, adding that based on the CAAP report submitted to the RPMC, slippage of the project implementation was at 38.65 percent as of 27 July 2023. The contractor is the joint venture of MAC Builders and ML Builders.

But in a press conference after the RDC meeting last 26 August, the National Economic and Development Authority regional office announced that the problem on the compliance of the contractor has already been fixed due to a variation order signed between CAAP and the contractor.

"The negative slippage has been remarkably reduced to less than 1 percent. This is because of the approved catch-up plan approved by the CAAP central office, it being the implementing agency for this particular project," said NEDA regional director Meylene Rosales.