Sotto: Senate won't probe Diokno, 'too many things on our plate'

By THE MANILA TIMES

Jan 07, 2019 11:02 am

THE Senate is keeping a distance from an investigation by the House of Representatives into the alleged flood control fund scam involving Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno and his in-laws, its president, Sen. Vicente Sotto 3rd, said on Monday.

Sotto said the House should have raised the issue during the time the budget was at the Senate.

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