Ghost stories they tell at the House

BEFORE the start of a regular session of the Ninth Congress in November 1992, Rep. Vicente Tagle (Peasant Sector) recalled that fellow sectoral Rep. Datu Joseph Sibug (Cultural Communities) wanted to deliver a privileged speech and even showed him a draft of the speech. At the roll call, Sibug was declared present.

There seemed nothing wrong there, except that at the time Tagle was supposed to be talking with Sibug, the latter had been confined since early in the morning at the intensive care unit of the Philippine Heart Center. He died sometime later.