The Department of Agriculture yesterday flagged eight “missing” farm-to-market roads in Davao Occidental worth some P100 million that were funded from 2021 to 2023 but never built, according to an initial audit report.
DA spokesperson Arnel de Mesa told reporters in a briefing that initial reports found that four projects in Davao Occidental that were funded under the national budget for the years 2021, 2022, and 2023, were still unfinished.
He said these were reported to have been completed, but the projects recorded no accomplishments as of September 2025. There were also ongoing construction activities during the audit, which he said could be attempts to finish the projects.
“Since the budget has already lapsed, this should be no more, but there are still movements, like what the Secretary saw. The question is whose funds were used? There are construction activities. They are trying to catch up,” De Mesa said in Filipino.
Aside from this, De Mesa also reported four other projects had no accomplishments during the FMR Audit that was conducted in October 2025:
The data was forwarded to the Office of the President, and will also be submitted to the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI), he said.
De Mesa said the Department of Public Works and Highways will be liable for the missing projects, as it was the implementing agency, even if the budget came from the DA.
