00:00Hindi na raw papayag si dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez na maging skip quote o panakipbutas sa ghost flood control
00:07projects at budget insertions.
00:10Itinagin ang dating Speaker na mastermind siya ng kontrobersiya sa bayturo ina dating Senate President Chief Escudero at dating Cognizman
00:18Zaldigo na nagde-decision daw sa budget.
00:21Sa gitna ito ng hirit ng ombudsman sa Sandigan Bayan na huwag payagang lumabas ng bansa si Romualdez habang inihahanda
00:28nila ang mga kaso sa kanya gaya ng flunder, money laundering at indirect bribery.
00:34Narito ang report.
00:53Sa videong inilabas ngayong araw, tahas ang itinanggi ni dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez na siya ang utak o mastermind
01:00sa kontrobersiyal na budget insertions at maanumalyang flood control projects.
01:05How can I be the mastermind? The budget does not begin in the House. It begins in the Executive. It
01:12is the product of a constitutional chain involving the Executive, the House, and the Senate.
01:18Argumento niya, dapat daw nakinabang ng husto ang distrito niya sa Tacloban, pero wala nga raw ni isang ghost project
01:24na nakita roon.
01:26To prove this point, I'm authorizing my staff to share and release to the public the list of all the
01:31projects in my district that the authorities may deem attributable to me.
01:36Hindi daw kahayaan ni Romualdez na gawin siyang panakipbutas.
01:40I will not allow myself to be turned into the scapegoat so that others who are actually accountable can walk
01:46away clean.
01:47I know many things about this current administration and past administrations as well.
01:52Sa pagdedesisyon sa budget, ang itinuro ni Romualdez, sinagdating Senate President Cheese Escudero, at dating House Appropriations Committee Chairman, Zaldi
02:02Co.
02:02I was not a part of the BICAM and the Small Committee budget deliberations.
02:07Records would show that I did not participate in those meetings and I was not privy to what exactly transpired
02:14during the deliberations.
02:17However, two people were instrumental in making those budget decisions.
02:22Cheese Escudero and Zaldi Co.
02:25Habang ang Ehekutibo, meron daw command responsibility sa katiwalian sa pondo at sa implementasyon nito.
02:31Command responsibility is far more logically relevant in the executive branch where there is actual supervision, operational control, and implementation
02:40on the ground than in the collegial legislative body where constitutional role is deliberation and appropriation.
02:47Bago lumabas ang video ni Romualdez, inanunsyo ng ombudsman na naghahanda itong ireklamo si dating Speaker ng Money Laundering at
02:55pinapa-freeze na nito sa Anti-Money Laundering Council ang kanyang mga ari-arian.
02:59We're waiting for the Romualdez case to start crawling or Romualdez cases to start crawling and the first case would
03:07be about money laundering.
03:09Humiling din ang ombudsman sa Sandigan Bayan na maglabas ng Precautionary Hold Departure Order laban kay Romualdez.
03:17Nauna kasing tinanggihan ang ombudsman ng paalam ni Romualdez na magpagamot sa Singapore.
03:22Pagamat gate ng kampo ni Romualdez, ang umiilal sa kanyang lookout bulletin order ay hindi pagbabawal sa kanyang mag-abroad.
03:28Aprobado na nga ang request niyang travel authority sa Kamara.
03:31April 22 May 4 ang paalam niya para sa long overdue follow-up sa kanyang angioplasty surgery sa Bayteac na
03:38babalik sa Pilipinas.
03:39Noong April 6 sinabi ng ombudsman na hinahanda na ang kasong plunder o pandarambong laban kay na Romualdez at Escudero.
03:47Giyit ni Romualdez sa kanyang video, kahit nananahimik siya ay nakikipagtulungan siya sa mga pagsisiyasat gaya ng ICI o Independent
03:55Commission for Infrastructure.
03:56I did not hide, I did not run, I did not evade scrutiny.
04:01I know there is no evidence that proves I committed plunder, conspiracy to commit plunder, or any similar offense that
04:08the ombudsman may be contemplating against me.
04:11Minsayin ni Romualdez sa ombudsman.
04:12What I ask of the office of the ombudsman is simple. Follow the rule of law and due process.
04:18This is a serious matter and it should be handled with seriousness, not with haste, theatrics, or shortcuts.
04:25Sinisika pa ng GMA News na makuha ang panig din na Escudero, ko ng Malacanang at ng ombudsman.
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