Limketkai Don’t allow DPWH To Dig Inside Their Property For the CDO Flood Project

The construction of the P1.8 billion solution to this city’s flooding problem hit a snag when Lim Ket Kai Complex changed its mind.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said LKK had earlier agreed to allow the digging of a subterranean drainage along a private road inside their complex.

However, LKK changed its mind in the last-minute said Leowald Pecore, DPWH project engineer and in-charge of Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental projects. “They (Limketkai) agreed before, now they changed their mind,” Pecore said Monday, October 22.

LKK’s last-minute decision severely affects the project, said Pecore, because “we can finish the project connecting drainage within six months if they will allow us.”

In the past years Cagayan de Oro has been hit by massive flooding. Among the most vulnerable areas are the Lim Ket Kai mall complex and the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines (USTP) along Claro M. Recto Avenue (National Highway).