The House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability is looking at a total of P612.5 million in potential misuse of confidential funds managed
by the Office of the Vice President and Department of Education under Vice President Sara Duterte.
“We saw here how the and the used and spent the confidential funds granted to them in the years 2022 and 2023.”Duterte served as DepEd Secretary from July 2022 until her resignation in July 2024. “Perhaps, it can be said that the use of the confidential funds of these agencies is improper,” he pointed out. “To give us more clarity, this question should be answered: what happened to the people’s money?”
“Only two people can answer this: first, the Head of Agency, which in the case of both the OVP and the DepEd, is the Vice-President, and second, the Special Disbursement Officer Ms. Gina F. Acosta for OVP and Mr. Edward D. Fajarda for DepEd. But none of them are showing up,” he said.
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