Gov. Isidro Zayco yesterday said that if the contractor who has reportedly began site development work on the 3-hectare property owned by the Negros Occidental provincial government in Tabunan, Bago City, wins the bidding for the job, he will question it.

RA Construction allegedly began work ahead of the May 8 bidding for the development work worth about P5 million for the site of the new Negros Occidental provincial jail.

Zayco said he had received reports that a contractor had began work at the site even before bidding was conducted, and he will have this investigated.

The governor said he was informed that Provincial Agriculturist Igmedio Tabianan had asked that digging be undertaken for a fishpond in an adjacent lot to the site for the new jail for an aquaculture program of the provincial government.

Zayco also said he was told that the digging had nothing to do with the site development for the jail.

But a source said digging was being done in the adjacent lot for the purpose of extracting soil that was being used for the development of the site for the new jail, and that the claim that digging was being done to make a fishpond was just a cover-up.

Zayco said all that he has signed, so far, is the cost and estimate of the site development program. It has not been bidded out yet, he said.*CPG

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