August 20, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Members of the Home of Representatives tri-committee will instantly recuse from the investigation on questionable flood management initiatives if ever congressmen and senators are formally implicated in the course of the listening to, Bicol Saro party-list Rep. Terry Ridon stated yesterday.
Ridon, who will lead the tri-comm as chairman of the Home committee on public accounts, stated they’re nonetheless ready for plenary approval to start out investigation into the flood management mission anomalies.
The committees on good authorities and public works make up the opposite two members of the tri-comm.
“We’ve got already addressed the considerations of the folks. I believe as early as final week, we have now already talked about that within the occasion that in the middle of the inquiry, there are congressmen or senators named as concerned on this anomaly, we’ll give them the proper to answer in the course of the proceedings,” Ridon advised radio dzMM.
“However the committee will recuse instantly and we’ll submit, first, to the DEPDev (Division of Economic system, Planning and Improvement). The DEPDev stated throughout our public listening to of their finances that they may undertake this investigation, which is an (company below the) govt (department). So, it’s the place we’ll endorse it,” he added.
Ridon stated that the tri-comm may also endorse the investigation ought to the President resolve to undertake an impartial probe.
“However on the minimal we’ll recuse after reply to indicate to the folks that we aren’t protecting up anyone,” Ridon stated.
He stated the committees on public accounts, good authorities and public works have already performed two conferences, the place the officers of the Division of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and different authorities companies have been invited and allowed to clarify.
The Senate began yesterday its personal investigation in help of laws into the flood management mission anomalies.
“We predict that they (DPWH and different authorities officers) would make the identical statements that they did in our committee,” Ridon stated.
Ridon stated the tri-comm will invite the 15 high contractors which bagged the vast majority of flood management initiatives throughout the nation.
VP: Speaker, Co had say in finances
Vice President Sara Duterte, for her half, stated solely two folks had a say within the 2025 nationwide finances: Speaker Martin Romualdez and Ako Bicol social gathering record Rep. Elizaldy Co who chaired the appropriations committee within the nineteenth Con gress.
In an interview in Paris, Duterte requested why President Marcos is investigating anomalies in flood management initiatives solely now.
Navotas Rep. Toby Tiangco nonetheless doesn’t have a replica of the small committee report he requested from the Home appropriations committee headed by Nueva Ecija 1st district Rep. Mikaela Suansing.
Tiangco stated he nonetheless couldn’t discover out who gained a complete of P39 billion – one P20 billion and one other P19 billion – from two districts which have been the topic of his questioning to the panel.
“None. It solely means there’s actually nothing. Solely Rep. Zaldy Co can do the reason in regards to the dagdag-bawas. So, what I’ve to do is for him to be known as by the Home management, and ask him to furnish us the data,” he advised The STAR.
“That is of public file, that is in accordance with our guidelines that each one committee stories have to be given to all members. This isn’t acceptable. That is public data. It’s the identical committee secretariat and ought to be positioned within the archives,” Tiangco reiterated to Suansing throughout Monday’s deliberations. — Delon Porcalla, Mark Ernest Villeza
