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House Assistant Majority Leader and Ako Bicol Party-list Rep. Jil Bongalon on Monday exposed what he described as a “conspiracy” behind the bidding of P8 billion worth of laptops and other related equipment for public schools during the time of Vice President Sara Duterte as Department of Education secretary.
On the matter of the Vice President’s children’s book, Secretary Angara clarified that the illustrators are employees of the Department but there is no record of them being paid. Bongalon said that based on the bids submitted during the first bidding, there was a variance of 24 percent, meaning the government stood to save at least P1.6 billion.
The department’s director for Information and Communications Technology Service confirmed the Commission on Audit 2023 report which observed for that year, DepEd only spent over P2.18 billion of its P11.36 billion budget for computers, laptops, smart television sets, and other e-learning equipment.
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