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Ombudsman mulls livestream of flood control probe

Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla tells a press briefing on Oct. 29, 2025 that his office is planning to livestream its preliminary investigation of the flood control mess for transparency. It would also post all its past and present decisions, including the decision by former Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales to dismiss Sen. Joel Villanueva from service but which her successor Samuel Martires overturned.

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Transcript
00:00The target is really, by November 25, we will have cases in the Sandigan Bayan already, or filed with the Sandigan Bayan. By November 25, hopefully.
00:19I'm supposed to have a dialogue with them on Monday unless it's reset.
00:29But I also have to talk to the Supreme Court about some matters pertaining to jurisdiction or other matters that pertain to the way the courts are structured.
00:41Regarding some officials, some of you hire officials, including the Senna Board.
00:47They are indictable in the Sandigan Bayan. That should give you a clue, enough. Don't get it from me because you won't get it from me.
00:58But sir, di ba, yung nga po, di ba yung pagtakas sa mga Senators, di ba nga?
01:04Salary grade yan eh, salary grade. Okay. Tapos, di ba?
01:08Sir, yung sa November 25, yung from the DOJ po?
01:14Ano ba yung day on November 25? Ano man na...
01:19Tuesdays.
01:20Tuesday.
01:21Tuesday.
01:22At that time.
01:23Yan po yung manggagaling sa DOJ.
01:24Meron manggagaling doon, tsaka may manggagaling dito, I suppose.
01:27Sir, ito na yung San West?
01:29Baka kasama yan. Baka kasama yan.
01:32Baka kasama yan.
01:33Sir, tama po ba, hindi po nakapag-file si Congressman Zaldigo ng kanyang hacker?
01:40I'm not on top of fact-finding or PI. But definitely, they're doing what due process, what it tells
01:50to give due process to people.
01:53Ano na po yung bago pong referal dito?
01:55Ano na po yung nakasuhan, dalawang Senador, and other involved po?
02:01Well, we expect this kind of action naman.
02:04That's the mandate of the ICIA.
02:07They have been meeting a lot of people and investigating for the past almost two months.
02:14Almost two months.
02:15So the output, I think, is very welcome.
02:18So we can work on them as cases already.
02:22Sir, ano na po yung next na magayon?
02:24Sure of some information.
02:25But basically, many of them are ripe for the picking or ripe for action already.
02:31At least for PI.
02:32Sir, can you say ripe for action?
02:35It means that most of the fact-finding has been done already by the ICI,
02:43or sometimes the fact-finding was done by the DOJ,
02:46which makes the facts already vetted or validated already by the respective offices.
02:56So much rebellious na po yung.
02:57So rebellious na po yung.
02:58So rebellious.
02:59And we expect to be filing cases soon.
03:07And the DOJ cases looks like they're going to the Sandigan Bayan after all,
03:13after information was gotten that there was,
03:18there were maybe people indictable by the Sandigan Bayan involved in the cases,
03:24in the flood control cases.
03:26So ito po yung yung ghost projects po?
03:28Yes.
03:29I think three of them involves a higher official.
03:32So sir, ito po ay hindi pa napapangalanan?
03:34Hindi pa.
03:35Hindi pa.
03:36Hindi pa.
03:37Sir, po ay hindi na po pa natin?
03:38Signed out magna.
03:39We'd rather that it ready when we find the case,
03:43that we name the official.
03:45Because it ain't lang natin.
03:47Malapit na yun.
03:48Sir, other details po dito sa official?
03:51Officials?
03:52Isang official?
03:53Isang official?
03:54Isang official.
03:55And then there are other Sandigan Bayan bound cases because of the ICI filing.
04:02So it looks like the Sandigan Bayan may be busy in the next few months or years
04:10if given the pace of the investigations that all of these cases have been filed.
04:16We also have gotten initial reports on the 421 flood control cases.
04:23And we are in the process of farming them out so that we can validate the information
04:31again.
04:32We have validation reports from the PMP about the projects being ghost projects.
04:38It's just that we have to check again with the big documents about the location of the
04:43said ghost projects so that we will not fail in terms of proving that these are ghost projects.
04:52The location is critical to this.
04:54Sir?
04:55What are some Urumbulans from?
05:10Did you see the number and a cut到 the patient says?
05:14You got a cut to the same!
05:16Did you see it again?
05:17If you have any questions, you want to read and read and read.
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