Trillanes to seek Senate probe on civil works deals allegedly won by family of Duterte aide

September 10, 2018

Senator. Antonio Trillanes IV Monday said he will seek for a Senate investigation on the multi-billion-peso civil works contracts allegedly given to firms owned by the father and half-brother of Special Assistant to the President Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go.

Trillanes said he will file a resolution today to investigate CLTG Builders and Alfrego Builders and Supply, the two entities owned by Go’s father and half-brother.

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) released the report on the unfinished projects of CLTG Builders and Alfrego Builders in Davao region last week.

“These are construction projects of his family’s companies. It is a clear corruption,” Trillanes said.

“I’m doing this because this is what I have been doing ever since… I'm not inventing stories,” he said.

Go has earlier denied the allegation.

Go called the PCIJ reports on his public works contracts as "false news guised as investigative reports," which he said seemed to be politically motivated because they "suspiciously surfaced around the same time when some groups had clamored for my Senate bid."

“I find myself once again a victim of fake news and biased reporting. PCIJ’s report raised malicious issues against me. These false news, guises as ‘investigative reports’, seem to be politically motivated as the reports suspiciously surfaced around the same time when some groups had clamored for my senate bid,” Go said in a statement.

In its report published last week, the PCIJ said that despite the “119-percent increase” for Region XI’s infrastructure funds in 2017, this has not “bought Davao a lot of finished projects.”

Citing DPWH ( Department of Public Works and Highways), the PCIJ said  the firm “that bears the initials of the presidential aide appears in Davao City’s 10 biggest contractors year on year from 2010 to 2017.”

“CLTG won a total of P1.85 billion worth of infrastructure projects for Davao Region from 2007 to 2017. This has yet to include the P2.7 billion worth of contracts won by CLTG through joint ventures (JV) with four other contractors, including Alfrego Builders, a firm owned by Bong Go’s half-brother Alfredo Go,” the PCIJ said.

Go said his father has been a contractor. He said  he did not allow his father to bid in the projects of the city government of Davao in all the 15 years when Duterte was mayor. DMS