Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 21:38:25 +0000
The lack of consultations with local development councils (LDCs) and “whimsical” fund allocations by lawmakers for their graft-ridden pet projects have contributed to the wastage of hundreds of billions in public funds
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:40:32 +0000
The P583.5 billion that Sen. Panfilo Lacson said was spent on ‘wasteful projects’ could have funded the following instead:
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:34:07 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson on Thursday urged President Rodrigo Duterte to end the impasse between Malacañang and the House of Representatives over the abolition of the graft-ridden Road Board.
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Read moreCredit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 21:30:13 +0000
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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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 23:21:24 +0000
The Senate and the House of Representatives appear headed for a showdown in deciding the fate of the graft-tainted Road Board amid allegations that the road user’s tax is P45 billion in pork. “As far as we are concerned, it’s abolished,” Senate President Vicente Sotto III said when asked about the Senate’s position on a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 03:57:12 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson appealed to Malacañang to “block” the proposal to call a special session on the 2019 national budget.
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:15:06 +0000
The call of the House for Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno’s resignation is “too harsh” and “unfair,” Senator Panfilo Lacson said.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:32:24 +0000
Sen. Panfilo Lacson said he was “enjoying” the emergence of fresh allegations that more lawmakers had been given even bigger allocations for their districts
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:02:34 +0000
The DILG has agreed to realign the additional P9 billion aid to local government units (LGUs) tagged as “presidential pork.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 02:16:46 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — As a former chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Senator Panfilo Lacson said Wednesday that he was likely to agree for another extension of martial law in Mindanao until the end of 2019. The statement of Lacson came shortly before the joint session of both chambers of Congress on martial law […]
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