Senator Erwin Tulfo on Sunday, September 21 urged contractors Pacifico “Curlee” and Cezarah “Sarah” Discaya and dismissed district engineer Henry Alcantara to do a “tell all” at the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI).

Sen. Erwin Tulfo presides over the Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development hearing and commits to uphold the dignity, rights, and welfare of the most vulnerable Filipinos, the senior citizens. “Our senior citizens rely heavily on social protection programs for their daily survival and well-being,” Tulfo said in his opening statement on Wednesday, August 20, 2025. (Senate PRIB photo)

Tulfo said the Discayas and Alcantara should also reveal the high-ranking government officials involved in flood control anomalies to the ICI, the same way former assistant district engineer Brice Hernandez did.

Curlee Discaya, Alcantara and Hernandez have been cited in contempt by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee and are currently detained at the Upper Chamber’s premises.

“Brice has already given sensitive information to the ICI, according to Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, so the Discaya couple and Alcantara should do the same,” Tulfo said in an interview.

“If they're afraid to tell everything to the Blue Ribbon, then they can do it at the ICI instead, because their statements there will be strictly confidential, but still under oath, of course,” he said.

President Marcos recently established the ICI to investigate the widespread corruption in the country’s infrastructure, particularly in flood control, following the massive flooding that happened in the country at the height of the typhoons last July.

The Marcos administration’s goal is to identify who conspired to pocket hundreds of billions in flood control funds and to prosecute those who are involved before the proper court.

The President earlier promised that the ICI will not spare anyone when filing cases, even if they are friends, relatives, or allies of his administration.

For his part, Tulfo said he hopes that the ICI will also expedite the filing of cases against those involved, as a lot of evidence has already surfaced, including from the Blue Ribbon Committee 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 stressed.