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Senior Deputy Minority Leader and Northern Samar 1st district Rep. Paul Daza had this to say about the multi-billion peso fund transfers between the Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority .
“We were informed recently that about P3 billion to P4 billion of the budget allocation was ‘distributed’ to the MMDA and several LGUs,” he told the House plenary. “I believe that such inter-agency transfers, without clear guidance from Congress — which is mandated to enact the General Appropriations Act — is highly suspicious, if not illegal,” noted Daza.Apart from the actual inter-agency transfer, the minority lawmaker further pointed out the seemingly questionable way the MMDA has spent the funds it received from the DICT.
“What was the criteria and scoring to determine who was qualified and unqualified for this bidding? Were there even other bidders who were screened?” Daza asked.
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