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Former Education undersecretary Gloria Mercado on Wednesday accused Vice President Sara Duterte of showering DepEd undersecretaries and assistant secretaries with money in envelopes roughly worth P50,000 monthly.Mercado, former head of Procuring Entity at DepEd, said the incident happened in 2023. Duterte served as DepEd secretary from July 2022 until she resigned in July 2024.
Evidently, it would appear that regional directors and other employees on the field would also receive sums on top of their regular salaries,” she said.The retired DepEd official then said lawyer Zuleika Lopez, chief of staff of Vice President Duterte and undersecretary at the Office of the Vice President, also asked her to resign when she opposed the apparent negotiated procurement for the DepEd Computerization Program.“I was informed that I should tender my resignation effective that day.
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