(Eagle News)—-Senator Antonio Trillanes IV on Wednesday, Sept. 12, filed a resolution seeking a Senate probe into the government contracts allegedly obtained by the family of Special Assistant to the President Bong Go.
Trillanes filed Resolution 889 a day after President Rodrigo Duterte said the senator’s mother was a supplier for the Philippine Navy even when the senator and his father were in the naval service.
Trillanes said he would not know if his mother did have dealings with the Navy as he was a high school student when his father was in the service.
In filing the resolution urging the Committee on Civil Service, Government Reorganization, and Professional Regulation, which he heads, to conduct the probe, Trillanes cited a report from the Philippine Investigative Center for Journalism saying CLTG Builders and Alfrego Builders and Supplies, owned by Go’s father and half-brother, were the top contractors of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
The PCIJ report said the Davao government, however, never awarded any project to those companies.
“There is an urgent need to look into this matter as conflict of interest or undue influence exerted by government officials and employees in the conduct of government transactions threatens the quality of service the public is receiving,” Trillanes said.
Go has denied he ever interfered in any government transaction, saying he would resign if these allegations were substantiated by evidence.