In his 2024 State of the Nation Address (Sona), President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced the completion of 5,000 flood control projects nationwide. But the flooding that followed Typhoon Carina—striking during and after his speech that year—cast doubt on that claim. A year later, during his fourth Sona on July 28, 2025, Marcos publicly scolded government officials involved in corruption tied to flood control projects. Less than a month later, on October 11, Marcos stated that it was “disturbing” that P100 billion—approximately 20 percent of the P545 billion flood control budget from July 2022 to May 2025—had been awarded to just […]... Keep on reading: Yearend 2025: Record flood control corruption unravels