VICE President Sara Duterte said unnamed lawmakers had demanded a kickback from the P5 billion budget that she sought to build classrooms when she was still secretary of the Department of Education.
'I was surprised that some lawmakers were asking, 'What's our cut in this?'' Duterte said in Filipino in a recorded interview released by the Office of the Vice President Tuesday. It was the second interview released by her office in so many days.'I said that it's not possible. If we do this, the DepEd will not do its job of constructing classrooms to address the classroom backlog.
She said this led to an increase in the budget for classroom construction from P5 billion in the proposed 2024 national expenditure program to P15 billion.'The P10 billion that was not controlled by the DepEd; it was controlled by Co and Romualdez. I don't need a corroborative witness, as you will see it on paper. The people will see in the NEP it is P5 billion, but in the approved budget, its P15 billion,' Duterte said.
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