Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson revealed on Wednesday, Aug. 27, that accreditations are being offered to contractors for a fee starting at P2 million. According to Lacson, this was being done by the Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board (PCAB), the implementing board of the Construction...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson warned on Wednesday, Aug.27, that Chinese "sleeper agents" and even operatives from China 's People 's Liberation Army (PLA) are already embedded in the Philippines to engage in espionage. Lacson pressed the concerned government agencies to conduct...
Philippine National Police (PNP) officer-in-charge P/Lt. Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. will have big shoes to fill as questions behind the relief of his predecessor continue to linger, Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Wednesday, August 27. Nartatez replaced P/Gen. Nicolas Torre III after...
Senate Minority Leader Vicente “Tito” Sotto III on Tuesday, Aug. 26 urged public officials and whistleblowers to stand firm against alleged anomalies in multi-billion-peso flood control projects, saying fear should not hinder efforts to uncover corruption. “Protected from who? If we start...
Senators on Tuesday, August 26 agree that President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has the sole prerogative to remove Police General Nicolas Torre III as Philippine National Police (PNP) chief. Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, a former PNP chief himself, said Torre acted “beyond his...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson on Sunday, August 24 expressed the belief that the final test on corrupted flood control projects lies in the certainty of punishment. Lacson said that while President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) and the launching of the...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" declared on Saturday, Aug. 23 that senators were not beyond suspicion in the controversy on anomalous and "ghost" flood control projects. Lacson claimed that both his fellow senators and House members introduced insertions or amendments in the national budget bill, thus his...
Negros Occidental Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said that the provincial government is open to purchasing a different property for the Central Philippines State University (CPSU)-Moises Padilla campus in Moises Padilla town, Negros Occidental. “If there’s another property we can buy, we’re...
Why showcase flood control projects as part of your accomplishment report, then disown them once they become controversial? Sen. Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson pointed this out in his reply to Oriental Mindoro 1st District Rep. Arnan Panaligan, who denied involvement in a damaged flood control project...
Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said on Wednesday, August 20 that only about forty (40) percent of funding for flood control projects are utilized for implementation. Lacson, in his privilege speech entitled “Flooded Gates of Corruption,” bared this as he slammed the “evident pattern of...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Wednesday, Aug. 13, scored an early win in his efforts to ensure transparency in the budget process, after he set two suggestions that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sherwin Gatchalian agreed to. Following a "solution-finding discussion" on Wednesday morning,...
Senator Panfilo "Ping" Lacson on Wednesday, Aug. 13, pushed anew to make public the proponents of all amendments - including insertions - in the budget process. Lacson, an eagle-eyed watchdog of the national budget, said this will make the proponents answerable for flood control and other...
