Manila, March 19 -- Malacanang on Tuesday said the alternative proposal reportedly offered by a Japanese company to build the Kaliwa Dam project will be left to the judgment call of President Rodrigo R. Duterte.
"We will leave it to his judgment call," Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a Palace press briefing.
Panelo made this comment despite words from Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) Administrator Reynaldo Velasco that the contract with China on the construction of the Kaliwa Dam was already a done deal.
Panelo said his office will look into Osaka-based Global Utility Development or GUDC's claim that it has better and cheaper proposal.
"Me, what I will do is I will ask the. this particular Japanese en...