Chalssea Kate Echegoyen

Senator Erwin Tulfo interpellates during  the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on anomalous flood control projects on Thursday, September 18, 2025. The hearing was also attended by officials from the Department of Public Works and Highways led by Sec. Vince Dizon, along with representatives of contractors implicated in alleged ghost and substandard projects nationwide.
Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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<div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17804755515131780475548135.jpeg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"></span></span></span></div><p>Senator Erwin Tulfo interpellates during  the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on anomalous flood control projects on Thursday, September 18, 2025. The hearing was also attended by officials from the Department of Public Works and Highways led by Sec. Vince Dizon, along with representatives of contractors implicated in alleged ghost and substandard projects nationwide.</p><p>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</p><div><br/></div><p>MANILA — Newly elected Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson Sen. Erwin Tulfo on Wednesday said the panel&#x27;s investigation into alleged anomalies in flood control projects will push through on Monday, June 8, following a leadership reshuffle in the Senate.</p><p>&quot;There will be a Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Monday. We are just moving the schedule from tomorrow to prepare all members,&quot; Tulfo told in a press conference.</p><p>After 2 days of the majority bloc&#x27;s absence, the arrival of Sen. Francis Escudero in Wednesday&#x27;s session broke the impasse, allowing the election of Senate President Pro Tempore Sherwin Gatchalian and new committee heads.</p><p>Tulfo explained that with 22 active senators, the chamber only needed 12 members for a quorum to conduct business.</p><p>&quot;We&#x27;re considered as 22 now. So divided by two, that&#x27;s 11 plus one, that&#x27;s 12. So we have a quorum. ‘Yung sinasabing 13, iyon po ay kung kumpletong 24. Dalawa po sa amin, ‘yung isa nagtatago, yung isa nakakulong,&quot; he said.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/3/senate-plenary-session-majority-minority-1501">Escudero breaks Senate impasse despite Cayetano group’s boycott; Gatchalian elected as Senate president pro tempore</a></div><p>&quot;Ang sinasabi sa amin, he (Escudero) doesn&#x27;t believe anymore on what they&#x27;re fighting for,&quot; Tulfo said, without identifying anyone in particular.</p><p>Sen. Pia Cayetano was originally expected to lead a Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Thursday, June 4.</p><p>Tulfo said he intends to make the committee&#x27;s proceedings as transparent as possible and has manifested that all senators, whether belonging to the majority or the newly formed minority bloc, will be considered members of the Blue Ribbon committee.</p><p>&quot;I declared and manifested that all members of the Senate, be it with the majority and the new minority now, they are all members of the Blue Ribbon Committee para wala silang masabi na may hokus-pokus,&quot; he said.</p><p>But he questioned the release of a list of resource persons who were invited to the supposed June 4 hearing, saying proper procedures were not followed.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/6/2/romualdez-ex-marines-invited-to-senate-flood-control-probe-2257">Romualdez, &#x27;ex-Marines&#x27; invited to Senate flood control probe</a></div><p>&quot;Pertaining to those invited resource persons, di po ako sang-ayon because we have to review these people. May sasabihin po ba talaga? Meron po ba talagang idi-disclose? We have to review these,&quot; Tulfo said.</p><p>He stressed that invitations should first be discussed among committee members before being made public.</p><p>&quot;The proper way to invite resource persons, you do not give it out to the media. You give it to the members first. Ang nangyari kanina, iyong listahan na sinasabi nilang invited sa Blue Ribbon hindi po dumaan sa tamang proseso,&quot; he said.</p><p>According to Tulfo, senators should be given the opportunity to recommend additional witnesses or object to certain invitations before notices are formally issued.</p><p>&quot;You have to give me time until Monday next week,” he said.</p><p>“At exactly 9 a.m. on Monday, there will be a Blue Ribbon Committee hearing,&quot; he added.</p><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ScwqYDL77jg?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GQHt4-lzgrg?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Newly elected Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson Sen. Erwin Tulfo on Wednesday said the panel's investigation into alleged anomalies in flood control projects will push through on Monday, June 8, following a leadership reshuffle in the Senate.</p>

Newly elected Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chairperson Sen. Erwin Tulfo on Wednesday said the panel's investigation into alleged anomalies in flood control projects will push through on Monday, June 8, following a leadership reshuffle in the Senate.

Tulfo says Blue Ribbon flood control probe to resume on June 8

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Tulfo says Blue Ribbon flood control probe to resume on June 8

Chalssea Kate Echegoyen,

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Published June 03, 2026 04:40 PM PHT

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