00:00The government turns former DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan into a state witness in the flood control
00:06probe to pin down former House Speaker Martin Romualdez. The Office of the Ombudsman says it
00:11was banking on the insider information that it could get from Bonoan. The Ombudsman filed the
00:15cases against Bonoan with the anti-graft court Sandigan Bayan only last May 28. But Assistant
00:21Ombudsman Mico Clavano says Bonoan could shed light on how lawmakers inserted allocations in
00:26the national budget. He adds it was Bonoan who approached investigators and offered to tell
00:31what he knows about the multi-billion peso corruption scheme. Clavano also acknowledges it was a hard
00:36decision to agree to drop Bonoan as defendant but he says their office considered how valuable he
00:41could be as a resource person in the ongoing investigations of bigger suspects.
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