SURPRISE WITNESS

Two new witnesses, Joey Flordeliza and Natalio Castillo Jr., presented by Senate blue ribbon committee chairman Senator Richard J. Gordon, take oath as they testify before the panel’s probe on the P728-million fertilizer project. Flordeliza is the president of the National Organization for Agricultural Enhancement and Productivity, one of the proponents of the project. Businessman Castillo, the surprise witness, said that Jaime Paule, who told him former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn Bolante backed him, offered him to take part in the project.