ICI

 🛠️ When Integrity Demands Action: A Call for Transparency, Timelines, and Justice

The recent interview of ICI Executive Director Atty. Hosaka with Karmina Constantino has stirred a quiet storm. And rightly so. Karmina’s questions echo the nation’s growing impatience: Where is the transparency? Where are the timelines? Where is the public reckoning?

Integrity assurances from the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) are no longer enough. In a time of systemic betrayal, transparency is the call of the times. We cannot heal what we refuse to expose. We cannot prosecute what we keep in the shadows.

While I hold Secretary Babes Singson in the highest regard—his moral compass is beyond reproach—he alone is not the ICI. The commission must speak as a body, act as a body, and be held accountable as a body.

We ask:

• Why are the proceedings not public?

The Filipino people deserve to know who is being investigated, what is being uncovered, and how justice will be served.

• Where are the timelines?

Investigations without deadlines become distractions. We need a clear roadmap: when will reports be released, when will cases be filed, when will accountability begin?

• Why are those initially interviewed not filing cases or issuing Hold Departure Orders (HDOs)?

We cannot wait for the likes of Zaldy Co to arrive. We must act before impunity takes flight.

• Why is the ICI not aligned with the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee?

The “big fishes” list must be shared, synchronized, and prosecuted with urgency. Fragmented efforts only serve the corrupt.

This is not a call for spectacle—it is a call for justice. The floodwaters have risen. The public has awakened. The machinery of truth must now move.

“Justice delayed is not just justice denied—it is justice betrayed.”

Let this be the moment when integrity becomes action.

Let this be the moment when silence gives way to truth.

Let this be the moment when the ICI becomes not just a commission—but a catalyst for national healing.

We are watching. We are waiting. We are ready to act.

Dr. Tony Leachon

Physician and Health Reform Advocate

Tony Leachon