00:00House Committee on Public Accounts Chair Terry Ridon stood firm that there is no reason for him to resign from his post.
00:08This was in response to the call by Batangas 1st District Representative Leandro Leviste for him to step down as the head of the Public Accounts Panel.
00:17Leviste has been linking the Bicol Saro party list, which Ridon represents, to top contractors and he is also pushing for this to be investigated.
00:25Talagang we had been very fair and we had been able to contribute to the truth telling that we had been seeing in the flood control controversy.
00:36We had been firm and fair and there is no reason for me to actually resign on the matter.
00:43But if he would want me to recuse, kung yan po ang gusto niyang gawin, if we will do an investigation for example,
00:50o yung sinasabi niyang Bicol Gold Rock, hindi ko wala naman yung problema doon.
00:55Pero I think resignation is out of the question.
00:59Ridon challenged Leviste to simply release the Cabral files, which he described as a lease of alleged 2025 budget insertions and DPWH project proponents
01:09that Leviste supposedly obtained from the late DPWH Undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral.
01:15Leviste has also drug Ridon into this, even though Ridon was not yet a representative at that time.
01:21It was a long time.
01:22It was a long time.
01:23It was a long time.
01:24So, I think we should have to take a look at it.
01:26It was a long time.
01:27It was a long time.
01:28I know that it was a long time.
01:29It was a long time.
01:30It was a long time.
01:31I know that a lot of things would have been doing.
01:32At present, several other lawmakers have also been implicated in the issue of alleged large-scale budget insertions.
02:02According to House Committee on Ethics Chair J.C. Abalos, anyone may file a complaint with their committee regarding the matter.
02:32It will be guided by evidence po, and of course due process.
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