Ombudsman Samuel Martires made this request to Congress, which is currently reviewing the proposed 2024 national budget.
"Consistent with my earlier pronouncement on the matter, I would like to officially request that notwithstanding its investigative functions, that the Office of the Ombudsman be appropriated the amount of One Million Pesos for its Confidential and Intelligence Fund in FYs 2024 and 2025 or until the end of my term of office as Ombudsman,” Martires said in a letter dated October 6, addressed to Senate finance committee chairman Sonny Angara.
He refused the “controversial” confidential funds to “protect the integrity of the Ombudsman and its office.”On October 10, the House Committee on Appropriations scrapped the confidential funds for the Office of the Vice President and four other government agencies.Mental illness is not an excuse, and we need to understand
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