Over three fourths of a billion pesos in tax money in pork barrel passed on to Dinky Soliman’s Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) which then passed these funds on to non-governmental organizations, likely bogus too, remain unliquidated and unaccounted for. This is according to the 2012 Commission on Audit (CoA) report which also noted major flaws in Noynoy and Dinky’s conditional cash transfer (CCT) dole out project, such as insufficient efforts to monitor project implementation and failure to enforce the immediate liquidation of fund transfers which “resulted in minimal settlements on funds transferred to various NGOs and POs and accumulation of account balances of approximately P1.042 billion as of year-end, of which 83 per cent or P872.611 million remained unliquidated for more than one year, part of which amounting to P854.4 million is Priority Development Assistance Fund funded.” Year after year, DSWD under Dinky has been getting a humongous share of the budget, despite the fact that yearly, audit reports show that several flaws in the flagship anti-poverty project of Noynoy exist, raising questions on the integrity of the CCT program. Yet year after year, despite the absence of a full reporting from Dinky and her CCT on the way funds are spent by her department, Congress always passes her budget, without any cuts and without any questions. The way the pork of legislators go to DSWD which in turn is the implementing agency that farms out this pork to the non-government organizations, some of which would be bogus, given the fact that the CoA had admitted there were some 82 NGOs that are bogus and questionable, one wonders what really happens to all those tens of billions in the custody of DSWD as Congress does not seem to be interested in scrutinizing the DSWD funds, more particularly, the CCT funds, which come in lump sums. tribune.net.ph/commentary/file-plunder-raps-vs-dinky-noy-allies
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 08:15:12 +0000
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