Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) Executive Director Brian Hosaka highlighted on Thursday, Dec. 11, the body’s achievements since its establishment in mid-September, including the filing of cases before the Sandiganbayan, the issuance of warrants of arrest, and the detention of individuals linked to anomalous flood control projects.
“We refer cases to the Ombudsman. These are criminal charges, administrative charges. We know for a fact na nagbunga na ‘no,” he said, stressing that these developments show the system works.
Hosaka added that while these accomplishments are significant, the arrest of so-called “big fishes” involved in the corruption scandal “will take time.”
But once that happens, “Justice will start to kick in,” he said.
He explained that jailing the bigger personalities—something the public has long been yearning for—cannot happen “with just a snap of a finger” since everything must go “through the process, that is part of our country’s system.”
“Due process—we need to gather enough evidence, we have to meet that quantum of evidence. And pag nagawa ‘yun, dyan magkikick-in yung hustisya,” Hosaka said in a press conference.
“But it is something that is part of the process,” he added.
For Hosaka, the Commission’s early achievements are already “a big thing.” “Because it shows that the process, that the system works,” he noted.
“So that would be a very big achievement in the sense that we can show the people that the commission asked for its creation and its mandate, will be able to assure them that our system works,” he added. (Joseph Pedrajas)
