THE P5-billion project involving the dredging of the Pasig River four years ago was tainted with irregularities and President Benigno Aquino 3rd wants the contractor, a Belgian firm whose deal to dredge the Laguna de Bay was scrapped in 2010, held liable for shortchanging the government.

Aquino, in his commencement speech at the graduation rites of the Philippine

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