Tulfo says the minority is blocking the probe, but the documented delay was the committee’s unfinished formal organization.
Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chair Erwin Tulfo says the minority bloc is trying to stop the flood-control investigation from resuming.
He did not name the senators who supposedly asked him to drop the hearings. He said the reason was ‘obvious’ based on the people Sen. Panfilo Lacson has recently accused.
The dispute points to Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano. Lacson has accused Cayetano of involvement in questionable infrastructure projects in Taguig, where Cayetano’s wife, Lani, is mayor.
Cayetano denies involvement in any anomaly. He says no ghost projects have been found in Taguig and has challenged Lacson to present proof.
The committee has another problem that has nothing to do with those accusations. Tulfo said it could not resume hearings until its membership was formally declared on the Senate floor.
This leaves the probe caught between a procedural delay and a political fight. Only one of those has been clearly documented.
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