The government shouldn’t insist on spearheading infrastructure development at the expense of unsolicited proposals, a businessman behind two long-delayed projects said.

“Unsolicited proposal is provided by law. You cannot just say ‘we are not interested in that, we’ll do ODA (official development assistance) or we’ll do solicited’,” Penson & Co. President and CEO Ricardo Penson said in a roundtable discussion with The Manila Times on Monday.

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