Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Wednesday said the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee’s upcoming hearings on alleged anomalous infrastructure projects in Taguig City would lay out the details behind five case studies his team had submitted to the Office of the Ombudsman.
In a post on X, Lacson said the committee hearings would give the public an opportunity to examine the evidence gathered during their investigation.
“The public may partake of the ‘delicious’ part if they watch the Blue Ribbon Committee hearings where the details of the truth behind the five Taguig case studies that we submitted to the Ombudsman will be exposed,” he said.
Lacson made the statement after former Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano, whom he described as the political leader of Taguig City, dismissed his exposé on the city’s infrastructure projects as “malicious.”
Responding to Cayetano’s remark, Lacson said the hearings would reveal what he called the “delicious” details behind the alleged anomalies.
On Tuesday, Lacson said he had turned over evidence gathered by his team to the Office of the Ombudsman, which he believes could support the filing of cases for plunder, malversation, and violations of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act.
According to Lacson, the alleged irregularities in Taguig differed from earlier case studies involving infrastructure projects in Bulacan because they involved what he described as both “old and new tricks.”
He said Taguig accumulated P14.4 billion worth of infrastructure projects from 2020 to 2025, adding that the total is “still counting.”
Lacson said his team would continue submitting additional evidence to the Ombudsman as more information becomes available.
He added that the Ombudsman’s investigation would not prevent the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee from conducting its own inquiry into the alleged flood control anomalies.
“It doesn’t preclude any action that the BRC may take in the course of the committee’s investigation of the flood control anomalies, depending on the chairman and the members’ appreciation,” Lacson said.
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