The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability may soon have its hands full when it investigates a billion-peso river dredging and desilting anomaly in Negros Oriental.

The committee is probing the P19 billion in Public Works funds awarded to12 contractors for projects that were found either substandard or overpriced.

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