17 lawmakers tagged by Discayas skip Blue Ribbon probe

The 17 lawmakers implicated by contractor couple Curlee and Sarah Discaya were a no-show during yesterday’s resumption of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee investigation on flood control corruption.

- By MARC JAYSON CAYABYAB

The lawmakers told the committee, through Speaker Faustino Dy II], that they were not attending “to avoid any possible prejudice” to the ongoing investigation by the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI), Blue Ribbon committee chair and Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson said in his opening statement.

Dy said the concerned members of the House have already formally submitted themselves to the jurisdiction and ongoing investigation of the ICI and “subjecting them toa simultaneous legislative inquiry on the identical subject could potentially prejudice the findings of the ICI.”