MANILA, Philippines — House Speaker Martin Romualdez has called out the Discaya couple’s claims about his name being used to obtain commissions from infrastructure projects, calling it “false, malicious and nothing more than name-dropping.”
Romualdez, in a statement on Monday — after contractor-couple Pacifico “Curlee” Discaya and Cezarah “Sarah” Discaya claimed that lawmakers got percentages of funds from projects — said that if anyone used his name to get funding from projects, they did it without his knowledge and permission.
“I cannot and will not allow lies and name-dropping to pass unchecked. The claim in the Discaya couple’s affidavit that my name was used for commissions is false, malicious and nothing more than name-dropping. Let me be clear: I have no involvement. I did not give permission and I did not give my blessing to those kinds of activities,” he further said.
“If anyone invoked my name, they did so without my knowledge and without my consent. And if they did that to earn money, they are the scammers and they are the ones who should be accountable for that,” he added.
According to Romualdez, he is a self-made individual, and has never accepted any bribe from anyone.
“And I say this with all honesty: I have never, and I will never, accept a bribe from anybody. No one can bribe me. All House members know that. I am self-made, and I have been blessed with the trust of the Filipino people. I do not need—and will never allow myself—to be corrupted by money...
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