Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson responds to comments by Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano related to an alleged “ghost project” controversy in Taguig City. Lacson posts on X quoting Cayetano’s claim that he, Cayetano, had become “Chief Justice Lacson, Prosecutor Lacson, DOJ Lacson, persecutor Lacson” and “Secretary Lacson,” with the implication that Lacson was “calling the shots” across government bodies.
Lacson says that if the remark came from someone “credible,” he would treat it as a compliment. The outlets report that the exchange follows Cayetano’s appearance in a Facebook livestream on Tuesday, where he questioned Lacson amid the ongoing allegations. Both accounts frame the incident primarily as a credibility and political dispute connected to the Taguig ghost project issue, without providing new adjudicated findings in the articles.
The differing angle is mainly in how the target is characterized: one article foregrounds Lacson mocking Cayetano’s credibility, while the other emphasizes Cayetano’s credibility being mocked by Lacson. Both describe the same quoted statements and the same sequence of posts.
