Lacson to provide Dizon with evidence vs 'rotten fruits' at DPWH

Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Saturday that he would provide Secretary Vince Dizon with proof against "rotten fruits" at the Department of Public Works and Highways amid efforts to weed out corruption in the agency.

Lacson previously detailed the corruption behind substandard and ghost flood control projects in a privilege speech on August 20.

“Godspeed, Sec. Vince Dizon. May the force be with you to cleanse the DPWH of greed and self-aggrandizement. My office will provide you with damning evidence against some ‘low-hanging rotten fruits’ but will instill fear so that others will think twice before following their bad examples,” he said in an X post on Saturday.

Lacson said that he is working on the second part of his “Flooded Gates of Corruption” privilege speech, set for September 10, which he earlier noted would take place if he had found new evidence of wrongdoing covering flood control projects.

Dizon, who only assumed the top DPWH post earlier this week, ordered all agency officials to file courtesy resignations. 

A thorough review will follow the resignations, Dizon said, with the goal of identifying and retaining high-performing officials within the agency. — Jiselle Anne Casucian/VBL, GMA Integrated News