Senate President Vicente ‘Tito’ Sotto III said on Saturday that there is still a possibility that Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson could return as chairman of the Senate blue ribbon committee.
Sotto said this in an interview over DWIZ radio after mentioning that they continue to convince Lacson to be their committee chair again.
‘All I’m saying is there’s a possibility,’ the Senate president said when asked if Lacson can still be convinced to reconsider his decision.
‘In other words, I can’t say it’s impossible; it’s not possible. It’s not like that.,’ he pointed out. According to Sotto, the blue ribbon committee members will set a meeting before the end of October to discuss the request of sacked Public Works and Highways Bulacan 1st District engineer Henry Alcantara and assistant district engineers Brice Hernandez and Jaypee Mendoza for a house arrest.
By then, he said, they will also convince Lacson again to come back as their committee leader. ‘All is well that ends well,’ said Sotto.
‘Most of my colleagues in the majority want him to return,’ he added.
Earlier in October, Lacson resigned as chairman of the Senate blue ribbon committee amid their investigation into anomalies of flood control projects. Lacson, in his resignation letter addressed to Sotto, cited how a number of their colleagues expressed disappointment with the ‘direction’ of the committee hearings.
Nonetheless, the senator vowed to continue fighting corruption.