{"id":23151,"date":"2014-08-21T22:48:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23151"},"modified":"2014-08-21T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T14:48:37","slug":"more-overpriced-projects-in-makati-says-bondal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/21\/more-overpriced-projects-in-makati-says-bondal\/","title":{"rendered":"More overpriced projects in Makati, says Bondal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Junjun-Binay1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23155\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Junjun-Binay1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Junjun-Binay1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Junjun-Binay1.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; One of the complainants against Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay revealed that there are more alleged overpriced projects in the city, including cost of cakes gifted to the city\u2019s senior citizens during their birthdays.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing of the Senate blue ribbon committee, Atty. Renato Bondal said that the price of the cakes amounted to P1,000 each \u2013 almost twice the price of commercial cakes in shops such as Red Ribbon and Goldilocks.<\/p>\n<p>This was contested by Binay saying that the price mentioned by Bondal was not the price that they have in their documents.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the cakes, Bondal claimed that there are other projects in Makati that are allegedly overpriced, aside from the carpark building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIto pong Makati City hall, \u2018yan\u00a0po\u00a0ay\u00a0nagkakalahaga\u00a0ng P7\u00a0bilyon, \u2018yan\u00a0po\u00a0ay overpriced din.\u00a0Ang\u00a0Osmak\u00a0(Ospital\u00a0ng Makati) 1,\u00a0sa\u00a0amin\u00a0pong\u00a0dokomento,\u00a0sa\u00a0phase 2 pa\u00a0lang\u00a0ay nakaka-P2 billion\u00a0na.\u00a0Phase 2 pa la ng\u00a0po\u00a0\u2018yun.\u00a0\u00a0Hanggang\u00a0ngayon\u00a0ginagawa\u00a0pa\u00a0rin\u00a0yan,\u201d\u00a0Bondal\u00a0said. \u201cYang Makati Science po, isa pa rin \u2018yan sa mga overpriced na mga building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cLahat\u00a0po\u00a0ng\u00a0pangunahing\u00a0infrastructures ay\u00a0nadaadan\u00a0sa\u00a0mga\u00a0\u2018chop-chop\u2019 at\u00a0mga\u00a0utang\u00a0sa\u00a0Land Bank.\u00a0Kaya\u00a0po\u00a0ngayon\u00a0ang\u00a0Makati\u00a0pwede\u00a0n\u2019yo\u00a0pong\u00a0tawaging\u00a0\u2018chop-chop\u2019 capital of the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bondal mentioned that the local government of Makati managed to pad up the prices of the projects because it allegedly splits the contract, and no bidding was done.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing was instigated by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to investigate the new Makati City Hall II parking building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; One of the complainants against Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin \u201cJunjun\u201d Binay revealed that there are more alleged &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[1026,5533],"class_list":["post-23151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","tag-jejomar-binay","tag-overpricing","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}