Navotas Representative Toby Tiangco has stepped into the center of the 2026 political storm, raising a pointed and uncomfortable question:
“Why now?”
As momentum builds within the House of Representatives of the Philippines to pursue impeachment proceedings against Vice President Sara Z. Duterte, Tiangco is challenging the narrative that this is not purely about constitutional accountability.
Instead, he frames it as something more calculated — “a diversion”.
According to Tiangco, the sudden push for impeachment coincides too conveniently with intensifying scrutiny over alleged irregularities in flood control projects under the Department of Public Works and Highways and under BBMs administration. Billions of pesos, he claims, are now under question — tied to so-called “ghost projects” and questionable budget insertions that have long escaped public attention.
For Tiangco, the connection is difficult to ignore. As investigations begin to peel back layers of potential misuse, he argues that those implicated may be seeking refuge in noise — a high-stakes political spectacle capable of drowning out the quieter, but far more consequential, issue of infrastructure corruption.
By shifting national attention toward an emotionally charged impeachment battle, he suggests, key players may be buying time — or worse, negotiating political survival — while scrutiny over flood control anomalies loses urgency. In the process, the very communities most affected by flooding remain exposed, their safety sidelined by power plays in the capital.
Tiangco’s position cuts deeper than partisan lines. It calls into question the credibility of the House itself: how can it champion accountability at the highest level while allegations of massive public fund misuse linger within its own ranks?
For him, the answer is clear. Without a transparent and thorough audit of flood control expenditures — and without institutional safeguards such as an independent oversight mechanism — any move toward impeachment risks being seen not as justice, but as strategy.
And in that framing, the real danger is not just political maneuvering — but the possibility that truth, once again, is being buried beneath it🔥
