EXPLANATION OF VOTE
Committee Report No. 22
on Senate Bill No. 2138
An Act Further Amending Presidential decree No. 1606, As Amended

Based on the latest report (December 2013), there are 2,862 cases in Sandiganbayan that still need to be resolved.

As legislators, it is our duty to give substance to the will of the people through legal and administrative reform.

While this representation originally wanted a more expanded court by increasing the number of Sandiganbayan justices and divisions as embodied in S.B. No. 472, the current amendments to the Sandiganbayan law do ensure that the Sandiganbayan will be able to act more quickly on the hearing of pending cases before it. Nonetheless, this representation will still pursue our version of the bill in the future should the need arise again - For the best deterrent to corruption is a speedy resolution of cases.

I vote for the passage of this bill.

Thank you.