(UPDATE) THE House of Representatives started its investigation into anomalous flood control projects on Tuesday.

At the start, the House’s three-panel infra committee conducting the probe approved a motion for the committee’s members to disclose whether they have financial or business interests that may be affected by any investigation of government flood control projects.

“I believe we need to assure the public that this investigation will not be a whitewash and that no members of the three committees conducting this investigation have a conflict of interest,” said Akbayan Rep. Chel Diokno, who made the motion.

The motion called for the members of the three panels to make a full disclosure of “financial, business, or pecuniary interest that may be directly or indirectly affected by any investigation into the government’s past or present flood control” projects.

Diokno’s motion was seconded and carried., This news data comes from:http://xj-xovp-el-mka.aichuwei.com

The tri-panel infrastructure committee is composed of the Committees on Public Accounts, Public Works and Highways, and Good Government and Public Accountability.

Last month, the House autho rized the three committees to conduct a joint inquiry, in aid of legislation, on the implementation of government flood control projects.

House probe tackles flood control corruption: Lawmakers disclose conflicts of interest

“We aim to present new proposals, so that there would be a perpetual blacklist of bad contractors. We also aim to include the private sector in inspections of projects in all aspects of project implementation,” Bicol Saro Rep. Terry Ridon, chairman of the public accounts committee, said in Filipino and English during the probe.

“All the findings of this committee will be immediately submitted to the Independent Commission,” he said, referring to the body that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said he would create.

House probe tackles flood control corruption: Lawmakers disclose conflicts of interest

Ridon said on Aug. 28, 2025, that the infra committee was “not constrained to focus only on flood control and what the president had inspected.”

On the sidelines of the House hearing, former Public Works secretary Manuel Bonoan said he was not involved in any corruption.

“No. I can shout [it]. I am not involved,” Bonoan said in a media interview at the House.

Bonoan attended as a resource person in the investigation of flood control projects.