The plot thickens every day. Rody Duterte, the ex-president, suddenly emerged from retirement to come to the rescue of his daughter, vice president Sara Duterte, on the controversial secret funds issue.
He threatened ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro, as well as progressives and communists, saying that he wants “to kill them softly.”
He opened his mouth once more soon after the Romualdez-led House of Representatives moved to realign the Vice President’s confidential funds worth P650 million to other agencies involved in security and intelligence work. But this time, he may be doing himself or the Duterte camp more harm than good because his calls for audit simply remind the public that he himself was not keen on being transparent.
“Anyone who attacks or undermines funds allocated for peace and order is naturally assumed to have insidious motivations. Such actions go against the protection and well-being of our citizenry,” she said.But isn’t realigning the budget to agencies involved in defending the West Philippine Sea a move that would defend the country’s sovereignty?
Based on the panel’s recommendation, a total of P1.23 billion in confidential funds were realigned to the following frontline agencies in charge of monitoring and protecting the country’s territorial rights in the West Philippine Sea:• P100 million for the National Security Council ;• P351.8 million to the Department of Transportation for airport development/expansion of Pag-asa Island Airport.
Moving forward, we must be vigilant not just on the use of confidential funds but on how every peso of taxpayers’ money is spent. Spreading like wildfire, sinister operators in the “dark web” from here and abroad have initiated attacks on the most vulnerable targets they could find in Philippine cyber space.
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