Three people–including two officials of a cold storage facility–were cited in contempt Tuesday, March 7 by the House Committee on Agriculture and Food during the panel’s ongoing inquiry on the agricultural hoarding issue.
This, after the investigating solons–particularly SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta–got fed up with being taken for a ride by the resource persons.
But Marcoleta, in his interpellation of Sevilla, didn’t get these kinds of answers. In fact, Argo chose not to submit the documents that the committee had asked of them. Zoleta and Cruz were absent altogether. “I was requiring them to submit to us service agreements..His lawyer advised them not to give the information sought by this committee because of the confidentiality clause in the service agreement. But it turned out…there is no confidentiality clause,” noted Marcoleta.
Thirty-five members out of 49 voted in favor of the contempt motion–two more than the required 33 votes. And so, the motion was carried.
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