Cagayan Governor Manuel Mamba and his lawyers have been ordered to explain why they should not be disciplined for allegedly
abusing court processes when they filed a petition before the Supreme Court , only to withdraw the petition later on.
The House Committee on Public Accounts and the House Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms cited Mamba for contempt and ordered that he be detained in the chamber. He was later freed by the House after signing an undertaking that he would apologize for his absence, attend future hearings, and no longer discuss the House resolution outside of Congress.
Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez welcomed on Thursday Mamba’s voluntary surrender a week after a joint House panel cited the governor for contempt, owing to his repeated non-attendance at an inquiry of the House Committees on Public Accounts and on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms. It also called for an investigation on Mamba’s alleged vote-buying. The Commission on Elections in late 2022 disqualified Mamba for violating the spending ban.
“Nag-attend nga ako noong May 31, kaya nga inexcuse na nila ako dahil sabi ko nga sub judice dahil naka-pending sa komite ito,” said Mamba. In the May hearing, according to Mamba, he was questioned about matters that were “covered by the sub judice rule, related to those pending before the Comelec, Supreme Court , and Ombudsman.
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