Erice to PBBM: If You Started the Probe, Why Ignore the Budget Insertions?
In one of the most direct privilege speeches this season, Cong. Edgar Erice asked a question that cut through the political noise:
“Kung alam mong saluwal na ang ginawa ng Kongreso sa 2023, 2024, at 2025 GAA… bakit hindi ka kumibo?”
A simple question — but one packed with layers of unspoken tension.
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A simple question — but one packed with layers of unspoken tension.
Erice points out a contradiction:
The administration is now passionately leading investigations into budget anomalies.
Yet for three consecutive budget cycles, neither the President nor his Cabinet publicly raised concerns.
If the insertions were improper, then why weren’t they stopped early?
If they were allowed, then why launch a probe only now?
This is the heart of Erice’s challenge:
You cannot demand accountability from others if you refuse to explain your own silence.
The speech raises a broader issue:
Government trust collapses when inconsistencies are left unanswered.
When leaders are vocal only at convenient moments, and silent when responsibility calls.
It’s not a partisan attack.
It’s a call for clarity.
It’s a demand for leadership.
Filipinos deserve transparency not just from Congress, but from the Palace itself.
Because every peso mishandled is a peso taken from the Filipino worker —
the taxpayer who feeds the system yet receives the least protection from it.
Erice’s speech reminds us:
Accountability does not stop at the House gates — it must reach Malacañang.
Faith Reflection
Proverbs 28:13
“Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”
Silence is never the shield of the righteous.
It is the hiding place of the guilty.
