SEN. Erwin Tulfo on Sunday called on contractors Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya, Sarah Discaya, and dismissed Bulacan First District Engineer Henry Alcantara to testify before the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) investigating the flood control corruption scandal.
Tulfo said their cooperation would follow the example set by former Bulacan assistant district engineer Brice Hernandez, who, according to Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, has already provided sensitive information to the ICI.
“If they’re afraid to tell everything to the blue ribbon (committee), then they can do it at the ICI instead, because their statements there will be strictly confidential but still under oath,” Tulfo, the committee’s vice chairman, said in an interview.
The ICI was recently created by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to investigate alleged massive irregularities in the use of flood control funds.
The commission will determine who conspired to divert hundreds of billions of pesos and file cases against them in court.
Marcos vowed the probe would spare no one, including allies or relatives.
Tulfo expressed hope that the ICI would hasten the filing of charges, stressing that substantial evidence has already been uncovered during the blue ribbon hearings.
“Let’s just wait and see the results of the ICI’s investigation on who will be charged in the flood control corruption; after all, the public already has an idea of who the high-ranking officials are behind this,” he said.
Tulfo also weighed in on the mass protests held Sunday at Rizal Park in Manila and the People Power Monument on EDSA, Quezon City, where thousands condemned corruption in flood control projects.
“We all need to fix our work in the government and avoid falling into corruption,” Tulfo said, calling the demonstrations a stern warning to officials.
The people “are watching, and they are tired of corruption. This is the public’s message to the government to ‘shape up or we will take control,’” he said.
Tulfo also urged government officials and contractors to return public funds.
“It’s as if they held up or pickpocketed poor Juan just to buy their luxuries. Sept. 21, 2025, should be the last day of corruption in the government,” he said.
