House leaders charged

The Manila Times

House leaders charged  (From left) Retired general Virgilio Garcia, Davao Del Norte District 1 Rep. Pantaleon Alvarez, Atty. Ferdie Topacio, senatorial aspirant Jimmy Bondoc, and Citizens Crime Watch officer Diego Magpantay file a complaint against House of Representatives leaders led by Speaker Martin Romualdez before the Office of the Ombudsman on Monday, February 10, 2025. Also charged were House Majority Leader Manuel Jose Dalipe, former appropriations committee chairman and Ako Bicol Party-list Representative Zaldy Co, and acting appropriations committee chairman Marikina 2nd District Rep. Stella Quimbo.  VIDEO BY ISMAEL DE JUAN  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net     Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes #TMTNews #Philippines

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00:00241 billion pesos?

00:02Sir, sir

00:03That's a big amount.

00:05You can't say that it's a geographical error that was corrected by the technical working group.

00:11It's hard because it's a big amount involved.

00:14Are these the blanks?

00:16Yes, yes.

00:17Did you just buy it?

00:18Like you copied everything?

00:19There are a lot of those blanks.

00:21Now, when we looked at what we put in those blanks,

00:26we got 241 billion pesos.

00:30Sir, why 12 counts of falsification?

00:35I think it's better to answer directly to the council.

00:40That's 12 counts.

00:43They asked for the blanks 12 times.

00:48That's what the BICAP approved.

00:51It's zero.

00:52It says zero.

00:53When it comes to the president, it should also be zero.

00:57You can't change it unless it's a geographical error, wrong spelling, wrong formatting, or misspelling.

01:03That's all you need, or wrong grammar.

01:05You can't put zero.

01:07You can do 90 billion, or 80 billion, or even 10,000 pesos.

01:12You can't do that, even a peso.

01:14Just zero.

01:15So, we counted 12 times that there's such an insertion.

01:21It means that Speaker Romualdez is fond of blanks.

01:25Who are the respondents here?

01:30Of course, Speaker Romualdez, because he's the head of the House of Representatives.

01:38Manuel Jose Dalipe, because he's the one in AFRO.

01:43Majority leader.

01:44Yes, majority leader.

01:45He's the majority whip.

01:46He's the one marshalling the votes for this.

01:50Congresswoman Kimbo.

01:53And we believe that there's an insertion.

01:57The former appropriations committee chairman, Galdico.

02:02And there are also people who we haven't identified yet,

02:06who we believe are members of the technical working group acting under instructions of the named respondents.

02:14Staff?

02:15Yes, yes, of course.

02:17Even though they're just ordered.

02:19Because they did it.

02:21So, they have to justify if they inserted under the directions that these are lawful instructions.

02:28Because if the instructions are lawful, they're also liable.

02:31Completely.

02:32Yes.

02:33Who are you?

02:35I'm doing this in representation of Citizens' Crime Watch.

02:40This is our representative, our national chairman.

02:43The Citizens' Crime Watch has been in existence since 1992.

02:47And we really care.

02:49As long as we see that there's corruption, we file it.

02:55We filed it in the democracy.

02:57There's a now-Congressman, Secretary Kareen, who is now being prosecuted in Sandigan Bayan.

03:02We filed it to Commissioner Guanson, the corrupt, who is now being prosecuted in RTC Bulacan.

03:08And we filed many more here, in sub-44, against former President Aquino.

03:15We filed those.

03:17So, this is not political.

03:19This is our advocacy for Citizens' Crime Watch.

03:24We are non-partisan.

03:38We are non-partisan.

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