Senate Blue Ribbon Vice Chairman Erwin Tulfo is urging contractors Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya and wife Sarah. along with dismissed Bulacan First District Engineer Henry Alcantara, to also reveal before the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) the high-ranking government officials involved in flood control anomalies, in the same fashion that former Bulacan Assistant District Engineer Brice Hernandez did.
“Brice has already given sensitive information to the ICI, according to Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, so the Discaya couple and Alcantara should do the same,” Sen. Tulfo said.
“If they’re afraid to tell everything to the Blue Ribbon, then they can do it at the ICI instead, because their statements there will be strictly confidential, but still under oath, of course,” he added.
President Bongbong Marcos created the ICI recently to investigate widespread corruption in the country’s infrastructure, particularly in flood control. Its goal is to identify who conspired to pocket hundreds of billions in flood control funds and to file cases against them in court.
The President has vowed that the ICI will not spare anyone when filing cases, even if they are friends, relatives or allies of the administration.
Sen. Tulfo expressed hope that the ICI will also expedite the filing of cases against those involved, as a lot of evidence has already surfaced, including from the Blue Ribbon Committee hearings.
“Let’s just wait and see the results of the ICI’s investigation on who will be charged in the flood control corruption. After all, the public already has an idea of who the high-ranking officials are behind this,” the senator stated.
