If the 13 million number is accurate, Senator Franklin Drilon finds it hard to believe that the PNP had done 43,333 activities per day across the country just in 2021. | GabrielLaluINQ
“But may we request that these allocation be examined closely, and we will accept the explanation of the good sponsor,” he added.
Angara said that the activities are meant to orient cleared barangays about how they would continue progress, which requires DILG and PNP personnel to do several meetings with local government units, local officials, and other national agencies. “And for some barangays, they would assist them in deciding or choosing which projects could be availed of, although the final decision fell to the barangays, and they would have community meetings, convergence meetings with the LGU officials, barangay officials, municipal officials, as well as they would also converge with the other national government agencies as to the needed services on the ground,” he added.
The lack of an explanation led the Senate finance committee headed by Angara to slash NTF-ELCAC’s budget, from the proposed P28 billion to P4 billion.
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