MANILA, Philippines – As a member of the
Makati city’s bidding and award committee, Engineer Mario Hechanova, said
they were receiving a monthly allowance of P200,000 from Binay when
he was still mayor. The said allowance was given to rig the bidding of the controversial
parking area projects.
Hechanova made this allegation when he
was asked by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV if he had received
kickbacks from the parking building project. Hechanova, answered that he did
not get any single centavo but as members of the bids and awards committee,
they have been getting allowance from the mayor.
Asked how much he was receiving
from Binay, Hechanova said: Almost P200,000.”
Asked again, what the allowance was
for, Hechanova said: Perhaps Senator, so that we should do what we’re
expected to do, which on my part, was to fix the bidding.
Hechanova told the committee before he
was asked by Trillanes that there was an “anomaly” in the bidding of the
parking building project. The project was firstly constructed
when Binay was still the mayor in Makati during 2007.
The engineer said that before the project
was bidded out, the city engineer, a certain Morales, called him to his
office and told him: Mario, like before, you should know who should win in this
project.
It was made clear from his statement that the
project should be awarded to Hilmarc’s Construction Corporation.
