Colmenares urged Congress to require agencies given confidential funds to submit itemized plans on how these will be spent.
MANILA — Progressive group Bayan Muna on Sunday said confidential funds to be reallocated to the Philippine Coast Guard would be better put in specific line-item funding for the agency.
The OVP and DepEd, both headed by Vice President Sara Duterte, are requesting a combined P650 million in confidential funds for 2024. "In fact, it would be better if Congress realigns Duterte's [Confidential and Intelligence Fund] to the budget of state universities and colleges or free tuition programs of the government or other social services," Colmenares said.
"If all these have been allocated and spent in just six years, surely the people of Davao [deserve] to know, as these could have been spent on education, free medicine, health services, and other social services for the people instead of being spent in a difficult to audit item called 'confidential fund.'"
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