Answer: Like a prison.
at the moment 12:13 noon Senate Blue Ribbon Committee orders the detention of witnesses who are song-shy, or who refuse to answer or who give inconsistent answers or who are lying
Government Assistant District Engineer Brice Hernandez testified that the payoffs, as supposedly ordered by District Engineer Henry Alcantara, are usually handed over to Senate employee Beng Ramos, in order to be brought to the “proponent”.
Senator Jinggoy in a news briefing confirmed that Senate employee Beng Ramos is the girlfriend of his staff member. Therefore, as girlfriend, in this close relationship and in the same building, she and the legislative staff member see each other everyday.
Beng Ramos is not being asked any questions because she is getting regular chemo treatment.
Girlfriend-boyfriend, in the same building, one handling billions of money in payoffs. And then this lead is no longer being followed.
On questioning of Senator Ping Lacson: Photo below from news reports: Included in the set of photos that Brice took of the piles of alleged bribe money to be delivered to proponents (senators, etc) and other public officials, being recorded by DPWH officers. In the background is a figure of a man of the same build and height as District Engineer Henry Alcantara whom Brice identified as District Engineer Henry Alcantara — which at today’s Blue Ribbon Committee hearing, was not flatly denied by Alcantara — when he said “Maybe…” it was him
On questioning of Senator Erwin Tulfo, another photo of District Engineer Henry Alcantara, full figure with face, standing beside the same piles of money, was shown and authenticated.
Where do our billions of pesos of taxes go —
All of us are taxpayers, even those who are unemployed: you buy a small packet of noodles or biscuits and you’re paying 12% Value Added Taxes:
This is where all our billions of pesos of taxes go.
Everybody, raise the placard: Sing
