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On Feb. 14, 2014, the Commission on Audit (COA) created the Prosecution and Litigation Office (PLO) to provide legal representation for state auditors who are sued in court
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 21:34:32 +0000
Malacañang has urged the Commission on Audit (COA) to recommend charges against a number of agencies in connection with wasteful government projects in 2017.
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That’s the bane of Philippine government spending, as P583.5 billion had been “wasted” on discontinued or shelved projects as of December last year, according to Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson.
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President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday hit back at former Commission on Audit (COA) Commissioner Heidi Mendoza after the state auditor told the Chief Executive to respect the anti-corruption mandate of the agency.
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Former Commission on Audit (COA) head Heidi Mendoza has called out President Rodrigo Duterte for belittling the agency created by the Constitution to safeguard public coffers and encouraging local officials to ignore its anticorruption mandate.
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday stood pat on the success of its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), saying it was unfair for the Commission on Audit (COA) to have concluded that the program listed “ineligible” beneficiaries.
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The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) has reshuffled its roster of regional and provincial directors in the wake of a Commission on Audit (COA) report that it had spent millions on fictitious training and scholars.
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The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has used only P1.45 billion out of the P8-billion funding for free tuition in state universities and colleges as of the end of 2017, according to the Commission on Audit (COA).
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The Commission on Audit (COA) has ordered officials of Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) to return to the government P664.36 million in salary increases and additional employee benefits granted from July 2009 to December 2012 without presidential approval.
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The Commission on Audit (COA) reported in April that the Department of Tourism, under then Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo, had paid P60 million for ads in “Kilos Pronto,” a public service program on state-run PTV 4 produced by Bitag Media Unlimited Inc., a company owned by her brother Ben Tulfo, who also cohosts the program with his brother Erwin.
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