Senate to tackle ethics complaints

Ethics complaints filed last year against senators will be tackled next month by the Senate committee on ethics, its chairman Sen. JV Ejercito said yesterday.

- By NEIL JAYSON SERVALLOS

Ejercito said the committee was unable to convene and organize in recent months because the Senate was preoccupied with budget hearings that ran until December, leaving no time for plenary sessions to elect the committee’s members.

With the budget process concluded, Ejercito said the committee would likely be convened in February, saying the Senate’s resumption of session on Jan. 26 could hopefully lead to the election of the ethics committee’s members.