Philippine Highway Bureau engineer Okada gambled wildly for three months, losing 49 million pesos, and was ordered to be detained on the spot by the Senate.

Philippine politics is rocked by another scandal. On September 8, the Senate's "Blue Ribbon Committee" revealed shocking details—Bryce Erickson Hernandez, the former Assistant Engineer for the First District of Bulacan in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), lost nearly 49 million pes