NAVOTAS City Rep. Tobias Tiangco on Sunday reminded his colleagues that “the biggest budget and infrastructure scandal” that linked former speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez and former congressman Zaldy Co must first be resolved before they shift attention to filing an impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte. Tiangco said the House must first clean up its ranks to gain the moral authority in any impeachment proceedings. “Let us first look at ourselves in the mirror before we judge others. How can the defenders of Martin Romualdez and Zaldy Co possess the moral authority if they were either part of the irregularities or silent against anomalies at the House?” said Tiangco, who, last year, parted ways with the House leadership and joined an independent bloc. “It was humiliating that many are calling us to be coming from the ‘House of Crocodiles’ (an idiom in reference to corrupt government people),” he said. He stressed he is totally for accountability. “But let us not be hypocrites here. Let us not throw dirt to others just to come up clean,” Tiangco said. He said he is not putting up conditions for his involvement in impeachment complaints, but only highlighting the need to ensure that those involved in the biggest budget and infrastructure scandal in Philippine history are held accountable. “I’ve been very clear from the start. No one is exempt from accountability, and let us not forget especially those key personalities who were involved in the anomalous budget insertions that took place from 2023 to 2025, as well as the flood control scam,” he said. He lamented that since Rep. Faustino Dy III replaced Romualdez as speaker, only one major House position has changed. He said the House is not the only venue to hold the vice president accountable. “There are already complaints filed against the vice president in the Office of the Ombudsman, and there is also no problem if there are those who want to file an impeachment complaint against her,” Tiangco said.