Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:38:10 +0000
Members of the House of Representatives used up P31.5 million in public funds for foreign travels in 2017, documents published by the Commission on Audit (COA) on Tuesday showed.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 21:35:05 +0000
The office of Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III spent more than P127.8 million, or about P350,000 a day, when he was still Senate President in 2017, according to a report by the Commission on Audit (COA).
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:57:44 +0000
Roughly P1.85 billion in disaster risk reduction and management (DRRM) funds allocated to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) was beset by very poor liquidation, unreliable recording and irregularities in its release to beneficiaries in 2017.
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Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:29:09 +0000
MANILA, Philippines —President Rodrigo Duterte is merely expressing his ‘exasperation and vexation’ against the Commission on Audit’s (COA) stiff rules which delayed some government projects when he suggested to kidnap and torture state auditors, Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo said in a statement on Thursday. “The remarks of President Rodrigo Duterte about the Commission on Audit […]
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 21:32:33 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte’s attacks on state auditors mean that the Commission on Audit (COA) has “effectively and truthfully carried out” its duty.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 09:38:24 +0000
A former state auditor on Wednesday refuted President Rodrigo Duterte’s criticism that COA has been hampering government work.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:46:04 +0000
President Duterte is obviously joking when he suggested to “kidnap” and “torture” COA officials as he slammed the agency’s accountability measures that hampered government work.
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Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:18:39 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent tirade and remark on the abduction and torture of Commission on Audit (COA) auditors and officials for supposedly hampering government work proves his unabashed disdain for accountability and checks and balances, Akbayan party-list Rep. Tom Villarin said on Wednesday. READ: Duterte: Let’s just kidnap and torture COA execs Villarin warned […]
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:09:51 +0000
A fuming President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said “let’s just kidnap… and torture officials” of COA as he slammed its accountability rules.
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Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:09:51 +0000
A fuming President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said “let’s just kidnap… and torture officials” of COA as he slammed its accountability rules.
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