House Speaker Faustino `Bojie’ Dy III on Monday said President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. did the right thing when he created the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) to handle the investigations on the flood control mess.
Dy also said he would want the congressional investigations on the matter to stop to give way to the ICI probe.
“I personally believe the infra-comm should submit to the ICI all of its reports, everything that happened during the hearings, since the majority of the Filipinos do not believe what came out during these infra-comm discussions,” Dy said in Filipino.
“I think it would be better to turn it over to the ICI,” he added.
In his inaugural address as Speaker last week, Dy acknowledged the frustration of the public over recent controversies involving public funds, and appealed on behalf of the House for the opportunity to regain their trust.
He said that the House under his watch would not tolerate corruption or impunity, would cooperate fully with the ICI, and would ensure that all inquiries into corruption are conducted openly and fairly.
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Terry Ridon, lead chair of the House Infrastructure Committee, earlier said his panel might conduct one more hearing to close the investigations it started early this month.
The infra-committee is composed of the House Committee on Public Accounts, the Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, and the Committee on Public Works and Highways.
