RECTIFICATION Photo shows the allegedly substandard project of the Department of Public Works and Highways’ First Leyte Engineering District in Leyte province. The private contractor is now rectifying project defects. Concerned residents had brought their complaints about the project to The Manila Times. PHOTO NESTOR L. ABREMATEA

PALO, Leyte: The First Leyte Engineering District (FLED) of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) based at Barangay Pawing here has admitted paying a private contractor more than P1 million for an allegedly substandard road reblocking project in disregard of President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against supposedly anomalous DPWH infrastructure projects.

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