Dizon: Unlike Edsa rehab, road dike in Co’s case is unfixable

Inquirer.net - Sep 23, 2026

MANILA, Philippines — Unlike the back-jobs in the Edsa rehabilitation project, which could be easily fixed by an asphalt overlay, the allegedly substandard road dike project in Oriental Mindoro—the subject of the graft case against former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co and other Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials—would require uprooting its steel

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