ICYMI: “Bakit parang nauso na? Bakit lahat biglang humihingi na ng intelligence fund?” Senate Deputy Majority Leader JV Ejercito asked.
Tucked in the 2024 national budget proposal is the P10.14 billion confidential and intelligence funds for select government agencies, including the P4.56 billion for the Office of the President.Ejercito said they would probably hold an executive session to determine how the agencies would use the proposed CIF next year.
Ejercito wants to know, however, if there is still a need for a huge confidential budget for DepEd when the government itself is saying that the insurgency in the country has already weakened. Ejercito said the Senate would also scrutinize the proposed secret funding for the Department of Agriculture .“Tatanungin din natin sila kung para saan? Is it to counter smuggling, profiteering? Eh ang problema po sa kanila, alam naman nila sino po ang nagho-hoard dyan. Alam naman nila kung sino nag smuggle so para saan pa yung intelligence fund?”’ he asked.
“So we’ll see if we will give it or not kasi ipakita muna nila na mayroong resulta and for what purpose yung intelligence fund e alam naman nila pero ang poblema nagbubulag-bulagan,” he added.
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