The Tamesis
September 12, 2025
Manila – Head Of State Ferdinand Marcos Jr. produced a different superhuman on Thursday that will certainly examine corruption not just in flooding control tasks yet in all various other public jobs, a corruption carried out given that 2015.
Under Exec Order No. 94 (EO), the three-person Independent Framework Payment (ICI) is entrusted with examining “irregular, uneven and abuse of funds” connected to federal government flooding control and various other framework tasks throughout the nation.
It can act (consisting of knowledge records) versus all federal government authorities and federal government authorities that might get involved, along with exclusive people and exclusive people that might get involved, consisting of knowledge records.
The EO stated the examination will certainly “focus on” flooding control and various other framework tasks “over the previous one decade”.
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This covers the last years of the “Exclusive Public Companion Program” for the Benigno Aquino III presidency, the “Construct, Construct, Construct” by then-Presidents Rodrigo Duterte and Marcos’ “Construct, Construct, Construct” and Marcos’ “Build Better Framework” program.
The EO has actually deficient clear that the examination covers just public jobs and freeways (DPWH), a division that has actually been the facility of the current flooding control rumor explored by the Residence and Us senate.
Along with flooding control, framework consists of roadways and bridges, trains, flight terminals and ports, water and hygiene, power generation, social framework such as institution structures, medical facilities and real estate, and electronic connection.
” The federal government will certainly be strongly devoted to keeping sincerity and honesty in civil services and will certainly take definitive steps to reduce and act as liable federal government authorities and workers, along with any person else taken part in grafting, corruption or various other acts of threatening nationwide rate of interests and betraying the trust fund of individuals,” Marcos stated in the EO.
Following actions
The head of state’s action made his very first step much more muscle, specifically introducing the Sumbong sa pangulo internet site to reveal the corruption of flooding reduction steps, after he uncovered that the federal government had actually paid billions of pesos of tasks that were neither existing, mistaken or insufficient.
He likewise exposed that amongst the greater than 2,000 specialists, just 15 of the 545 billion Philippine pesos his federal government has actually been regulating the across the country flooding given that 2022, or greater than P100 billion, had little effect on seasonal flooding.
The head of state has actually not yet revealed that will certainly act as chairman and 2 various other participants of the Meantime Fact-Investigation Board.
The 3 participants will certainly be “validated skills, honesty, judgment and freedom” individuals, EO stated.
The board will certainly be sustained by the Secretariat, advised by ICI by the Exec Supervisor selected by the Head of state.
ICI has a vast array of powers and powers to set in motion the assistance and teamwork of numerous federal government firms.
EO guides the Ministry of Justice (DOJ), consisting of the National Bureau of Examination and the National Bureau of Prosecutions, DPWH, Ministry of Inside and City Government, the Philippine National Cops Division, and all divisions, bureaus, firms, firms and managements to help ICI.
The Payment deserves to get records such as agreements and financial institution declarations from the Sentral Ng Pilipinas and Internal Profits Bureau of Bangkok, as suitable.
It might likewise accredit or suggest holding orders, display or ban international traveling, or require any kind of public authorities or staff member to return abroad, or any kind of exclusive specific covered by its examination.
It might suggest or need the Anti-Money Laundering Payment (AMLC) and various other authorities to ice up or surrender invoices of possessions, funds, down payments and residential property thought to be connected to abnormalities in flooding control and various other framework tasks, pending examination.
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The Payment might suggest obligation for infractions of numerous legislations versus federal government authorities, workers and exclusive criminal, civil and management fees discovered. It can likewise recommend their suspension to stop proof from being damaged or impacting witnesses.
It will certainly hold hearings, pressure involvement in these queries, and subpoena records and various other proof.
Federal government authorities or workers that postpone or decline to follow any kind of ICI subpoena might encounter management corrective and criminal obligation.
The Board likewise deserves to get details and records from the Us senate and your house of Reps pertaining to the ICI’s very own examination upon demand.
The ICI might suggest an individual to the Justice Division as a witness and a witness security program for the federal government.
Various other probes
The ICI should send normal updates to the Head of state’s Workplace and release its accomplishments and various other relevant records.
The Payment will certainly proceed its job till it is finished or liquified by the Head of state.
Marcos earlier stated the ICI examination would certainly not impede the continuous queries of your house and Us senate on the flooding control program.
The head of state stated that given that execs have no power over the legislature, Congress can remain to make inquiries.
Us Senate Head Of State Vicente Sotto III stated the continuous examination by the legislator will certainly “help regulation” and the board can utilize its board records.
Your House Framework Board’s examination right into the irregular flooding control job will certainly likewise proceed, “particularly regarding the issues currently reviewed by the board,” stated its chairman, Rep. Terry Ridon, Rep. Bicol Saro.
Audio speaker Martin Romualdez stated your house would certainly function totally with the board and pledge not to hinder of its job, also if it implies participants of Congress.
Delima locates it “weak”
” Under my management, this home will certainly never ever come to be a sanctuary for corruption,” Romadez stated.
” I comprehend the worries occurring from the supposed infractions in the flooding control program. These records have actually created discomfort and disappointment for our individuals, which’s right.
” Liability is crucial,” he included. “Those that need to take duty ought to reply to their activities. Initially, public count on the federal government should be maintained. The problem is endangered: openness and responsibility.”
Mamamayang Liberal Rep. Leila de Lima stated EO is weak contrasted to her and various other dynamic legislators previously today (Costs 4453), which likewise tries to develop an independent board to examine the misuse of funds for flooding control and various other framework tasks.
Not produced by legislation
The previous legislator and attorney general of the United States mentioned the ICI’s absence of power to hate, which she stated made its subpoena permission worthless.
She likewise explained that the appropriate legislations “just basic referrals” might discuss their range of query, consisting of ransacking legislations, thorough political election legislations and purchase legislations.
Much more notably, due to the fact that this is just a management development produced by legislation, not a firm produced by legislation, “the impact is that the board can just be bound by organizations, authorities and workers of the management division.”
De Lima likewise kept in mind that the EO does not also consist of constitutional bodies such as the Political election Payment, the Audit Payment, the Ombudsman’s Workplace and the AMLC as component of its assistance bodies.
She included: “That’s why I appreciate the head of state’s advantage of providing such EOs, yet the very best legislations are still much better to make sure that the Independent Payment has teeth with a bigger required.”
