Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Saturday thanked Sen. Erwin Tulfo for ‘speaking the truth’ after the latter revealed that some fellow senators had discouraged him from signing a Senate blue ribbon committee report on alleged anomalies in flood control projects.
According to Lacson, Tulfo’s remarks confirmed what he had long believed was the reason the committee’s partial report failed to secure enough signatures to be sponsored on the Senate floor.
‘Thank you Sen. Erwin for speaking the truth to confirm what I had thought all along was the real reason-why the partial report was left to go stale and become spoiled. Where do you go from here, Philippine Senate?’ Lacson said on Saturday in a post on X.
In Lacson’s post, he included a snippet of Tulfo’s interview with broadcast journalist Jessica Soho, where Tulfo recalled being told not to sign because some of those who could be affected by the findings were also among them.