Senate Minority Leader Franklin maintained on Monday, August 30, that former Budget Undersecretary Lloyd Christopher Lao is "covering up" for people involved in the alleged corruption of COVID-19 response funds transferred from the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Budget and...
The chairperson of the Senate economic affairs committee on Monday, August 30, sought the abolition of two big government offices whose responsibility of buying supplies for government agencies have been shrouded with reports that billions of pesos entrusted to them were unused or were spent...
Pateros Mayor Miguel “Ike” Ponce III announced Monday that the unclaimed “ayuda” or financial assistance from the national government will be given to people who filed “grievance,” or appeal. He said the Pateros municipal government finished distributing the financial assistance last...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday, August 30, told the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to cease from accepting proposals from a local company allegedly linked to a financial fraud controversy in Taiwan. Senator Risa Hontiveros (Senate PRIB) “Pera ng taumbayan ang ginagamit para bayaran...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima said she is certain that former undersecretary Christopher Lao was one of the go-to-operators and hatchmen of the Davao mafia led by President Duterte and Senator Christopher “Bong” Go. Judging by the developments in the Senate blue ribbon committee’s hearing...
An opposition leader is convinced that Senator Christopher “Bong” Go’s advise for Health Secretary Francisco Duque to resign is a ploy to take off the heat of critical public opinion from the “questionable transactions” of the Procurement Service-Department of Budget and Management....
Senator Joel Villanueva on Sunday, August 29 said government agencies should temporarily stop using the Department of Budget and Management’s Procurement Service (PS-DBM) as their buying arm for big-ticket projects until the agency has been reformed and cleared of any allegations of corruption....
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday said the Senate blue ribbon committee will dig deep on the issue of who was former Budget Undersecretary Christopher Lao’s influential backer who enabled him to get into the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) and later on, enter into...
Vice President Leni Robredo on Sunday, August 29, criticized the government’s P8.6-billion deal with Pharmally Pharma, a newly registered pharmaceutical company with links to President Duterte’s ex-economic adviser Michael Yang that sold overpriced medical supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic....
Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday, Aug. 29 expressed belief the procurement of overpriced personal protective equipment (PPE) over P8-billion from an obscure company by the camp of former budget undersecretary Christopher Lao was premeditated. “Mukhang plinano talaga itong...
Senator Panfilo Lacson stressed on Saturday, August 28, the need to dig deeper in the role of the Department of Budget and Management's Procurement Service (PS-DBM) in what he believes was "large-scale corruption" involving parties amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Panfilo Lacson (Czar...
The Department of Budget and Management's Procurement Service (DBM-PS) is an organization independent from the agency proper. President Rodrigo Duterte Budget Secretary Wendel Avisado shake hands following the latter's oath-taking ceremony in Malacañang on August 5, 2019. (Malacañang) This was...
