‘There is no turning back here.’
This was what the lawyer of Pacifico ‘Curlee’ and Cezarah ‘Sarah’ Discaya said after the contractor couple attended the hearing of the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) in connection with the flood control anomalies on Tuesday, September 30.
The Discaya couple separately arrived at the ICI office in Taguig City on Tuesday morning at around 9 a.m. to attend the investigation, which lasted until around 2:30 p.m.
The contractor couple refused to give any statement to the media. Instead, their lawyer, Atty. Cornelio Samaniego III, was the one who answered questions in an ambush interview.
According to Samaniego, just like before the Department of Justice, the Discayas also told everything to the commission during its proceeding on Tuesday.
‘About money, about the particular persons mentioned in the affidavit, what the transaction is, what the history is.. we were ‘tell-all’ [during the probe],’ the counsel said.
‘There is no turning back here,’ he emphasized.
When asked for the names that the Discayas mentioned at the ICI hearing, Samaniego refused to answer, saying instead that ‘it’s already in the affidavit.’
He said the Discaya couple decided to reveal everything they know on the flood control anomalies after flood survivors and environmental groups threw mud and rocks, and wrote ‘magnanakaw’ (thief) and ‘ikulong’ (jail them), on the gates of their residence in Pasig City earlier in September.
The Discayas are currently under investigation for alleged involvement in anomalies in flood control projects. /apl