UPSE Assoc Prof | Good Governance Advocate | Development Worker | Economist | Mother | Former DOF Usec | Former EITI Board Member | Former UP Diliman USC Chair
I knew when I posted the supply and demand graph that my boss would receive a call from Malacañang to remove me, but I did it anyway. With how things were going, I knew it was time to go.
May nanalo na po. Hindi po sya resignation or termination. Expiration po pala ang tamang term 😊
Officially received the document this morning.
Maraming salamat po. It was an honor serving the country.
Makakatulog po ako ng mahimbing knowing that I did my best serving our country and advocating the interest of our people.
Lagi lagi para sa bayan.
Honor and excellence ✊🏼
Huwag natin ibahin ang usapan. Ang tanong ay paano ginastos ang confidential funds at sino ang nakinabang. Karapatan ng bawat Pilipino mag demand ng accountability. Ang nangungurakot sa kaban ng bayan ay kalaban ng mamamayan. Ilabas ang audit report ng CF.
#PeraNgBayanBantayan
#News5OnTape
I 'MINDANAO SECEDING FROM THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES'
‘Yan ang usaping binuksan ni dating pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa isang press conference sa Davao City kagabi, Jan. 30
#News5
I via Elaine Fulgencio
Technically, the agencies requesting confidential and intelligence funds must present a physical and financial plan to support the request for funds. May na present ba?
#ThisIsWhereYourTaxesGo
According to our Constitution, a bill can be certified as urgent if it is necessary to address an emergency or public calamity. Anong emergency o calamity ang basehan nito?
It is our responsibility as civil servants to say if a policy is flawed. It’s very dangerous to just say “yes” because we don’t want to offend the boss. Policies have real consequences on people’s lives. They have to be well thought out.
#EmperorsNewClothes
Yung pina tupad mo yung rule pero ikaw pa ang suspended. Parang yung QC pulis na nawalan ng trabaho dahil sa VIP na tumawid sa Commonwealth na hanggang ngayon hindi pa ni r reveal…
MMDA Chair Romando Artes suspends MMDA Task Force Special Operations Chief Bong Nebrija after tagging Senator Bong Revilla in a supposed bus lane violation. | via
@JonathanAndal_
'WITHOUT DISSENT, THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY'
Former President Rodrigo Duterte, who was criticized by the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) for his "unprecedented crackdown" on opposition politicians during his term, now says that dissent is essential in a democracy.
Hindi po intelligence fund ang pipigil sa pagsali ng mga kabataan sa CPP-NPA. Maayos na pamamahala at serbisyo, programang mag aahon sa kahirapan, trabaho at hanapbuhay, quality education, effective na health care system. Yan po ang kailangan…
Umapela si Sen. Bato Dela Rosa
sa DepEd na tiyaking hindi mare-recruit ng CPP-NPA ang mga estudyante sa kabila ng kawalan ng confidential funds ng kagawaran.
"Sana siguruhin natin na wala nang bata na ma-recruit ng CPP-NPA dun sa kabundukan at makipaglaban at mamatay,"…
Hindi factor ang land ownership sa foreign investment. Sa Vietnam lease lang. similar sa atin. Ang mga nakaka discourage, corruption, bureaucratic inefficiency, political instability, poor quality of infra, high cost of doing business, etc
Some people really want to push charter change — by hook or by crook. This ad was shown at every commercial break of TV Patrol. It’s just funny that they don’t have the guts to show who they are. “This is a paid advertisement” — Paid by?
Yung apektado ka sa $300 na nilunon ng airport worker pero hindi apektado sa ₱125M CF na ginastos ng 11 days.
#ThisIsWhereYourTaxesGo
by Agaw Trip Komiks
CF of the top 10 cities. Zero CF for Pasig, Taguig and Mandaluyong. Mandaue and Cebu had CF in 2021 and 2022 only.
Talagang mapapaisip ka kung kailangan pa ng confidential fund. Hindi confidential fund ang sagot sa kahirapan.
#WagKangKuCorrupt
JUST IN: The country’s outstanding debt inches up to another record P14.51 trillion as of end-November. The government added P28 billion in obligations largely from domestic securities. The debt pile is closing in to the P14.62 trillion expected debt by end-2023. |
@maureensimeon
Nacurious ako kung gaano kalaki ang confidential fund ni SWOH nung sya ay mayora pa ng Davao kumpara sa kanilang social spending.
Sa buong termino niya bilang mayora, laging mas malaki ang confidential fund kesa sa gastos para sa edukasyon, labor and employment, social services
Hindi natin trabaho magjustify kung paano nagastos ang 125M CF. Tayo ang tax payers. Karapatan natin malaman kung paano nilulustay ang tax natin. Responsibilidad ng gobyerno magpaliwanag kung paano ito ginastos.
#HuwagMagingApologist
#ThisIsWhereOurTaxesGo
#TaxNgBayanBantayan
BREAKING: After more than 6 years in detention, former senator Leila de Lima is poised for release, as Muntinlupa RTC Branch 206 granted her petition for bail on her third and last drug case.
Story to follow at .
BREAKING NEWS. A Muntinlupa court grants former senator Leila de Lima’s petition for bail, paving the way for her freedom after close to seven years in detention.
De Lima remains on trial for the remaining one case of conspiracy related to illegal drug trading. She has been…
So now confidential expenses can be incurred under any budget item? I thought JC 2015-1 is clear in stating that CF is needed for confidential expenses.
#LegalFiction
WATCH: Representative Stella Quimbo justifies confidential expense incurred by OVP in 2022 even though there's no confidential fund line item. Quimbo says the expense was made under the Good Governance Program item, which supposedly enabled the transfer of contingent funds. | via…
Anong pananakot na naman ito?! Ano ngayon kung staunch critic?! Bawal na ba? Hindi na ba demokrasya ang Pilipinas? Pakisabi nga kung sino ang VIP na yan na kung umasta e akala mo may ari ng kalsada.
Lt. Col. May Genio, commander of the Holy Spirit police station, identified the person as Janus Munar, whom she described as a staunch critic of Duterte, based on his Facebook posts.
'IMPORTANTE RITO IS MERON TAYONG TRANSPARENCY AT ACCOUNTABILITY'
Mayor Benjie Magalong said that the city's P2 million confidential fund is handled by the City Police Office and is subject to a liquidation process to ensure transparency and accountability.
#BantayBudget2024
Arturo Lascañas, former police officer and one of the original members of the Davao Death Squad, talked to VERA Files columnist Antonio J. Montalvan II recently about former president Rodrigo Duterte’s involvement in illegal drugs.
Read the story:
I support making all COA reports public. Yan ang panawagan ng
#WagKangKuCorrupt
. Pati CF, kung meron man at pati past administrations. Yung hindi na kailangan i-FOI. Gusto mo I-draft mo ang petition to COA commissioners to make all COA reports public. I will co-sign! Let’s go!
Sa mga interesado pong matuto mag bantay ng kaban ng bayan sa LGU level, 2011 po may ginawa kaming handbook tungkol dito. Dati na pong advocate ng good governance at people participation sa public finance. Downloadable po for free.
#PeraNgBayanBantayan
Documents showed that the Davao City government set aside over P2.6 billion for confidential expenses over the past seven years, with an annual expenditure of P460 million since 2020. The amount surpasses the confidential spending of even the most affluent cities in the country.…
Magkakaibigan po kami mula nung mga estudyante pa sa UP. Pare-parehong naging Student Council Chairperson, iba iba ang naging propesyon ngunit isa pa rin ang paninindigan.
#SAMASA
@PerciCen
@barrygutierrez3
@norman1760
Alam nyo po kaya nagkakaganito ang lipunan ay dahil sa mga taong pinipiling maging sunud-sunuran at manahimik lalo na kung may nakikitang mali. Hindi po kailangan mag graduate sa UP para makita na ang pinapatupad na polisiya ay papogi lang.
Gumawa po ako ng video kung paano mahahanap ang confidential expense info sa COA. Yung expenses by function, sa BLGF website po iyon. Kanya kanyang hanap na ng mga LGUs natin!
#MakeGovernmentAccountable
#PeraNgBayanBantayan
BREAKING: A QC prosecutor summons ex-Pres Rodrigo Duterte to attend Dec 4 and 11 probe at QC Prosec Office and submit his counter-affidavit to grave threats complaint filed by Rep. France Castro.
First time a subpoena has been issued vs Duterte since he stepped down from office.
The confidential and intelligence funds of PH Presidents post EDSA (because the Marcos Sr CIF deserves a separate post). Happy with the trend you see?
#AbolishConfidentialFunds
#WagKangKuCorrupt
Quezon City naman. Mas mataas ang gastos ng Quezon City sa edukasyon, health, pabahay at social services kumpara sa confidential expenses nito. Mas mataas lang ang CF kumpara sa labor and employment. Tumataas din po taon taon ang inilalaan ng QC sa social services.
Former Sen. Leila de Lima recalled how, in 2016, she received “offensive” and “unprintable” comments after public prosecutors during the term of then President Rodrigo Duterte accused her of receiving millions of pesos in drug money from convicted drug personalities during her…
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano has ranked first among his peers in terms of absences at the Senate, skipping 18 sessions from July 24, 2023 up to February 21, 2024.
#PolitikoNews
Busy pa ang DepEd Sec sa confidential fund!
“Ask typical 10-year-old public school students in the Philippines to read and understand a simple, age-appropriate paragraph and there is a good chance that as many as nine of 10 of them will not be able to.”
Would love to be proven wrong on COA audit of CIF if it will reveal proper/improper use of public fund. COA should publish its opinion on whether there was misuse of funds. Proposed CIF of non intelligence agencies should be excluded from the 2024 budget.
"P125 million spent in 11 days, not 19 days"
The Commission on Audit is asking the Office of the Vice President for necessary documents explaining how it spent P125 million confidential funds in 11 days in the year 2022.
READ:
I have been pushing for higher tax on mining. I opposed this bill when I was still with DOF. Aside from mining’s negative social and environmental effects, we need to get a fair share from the proceeds. Bakit ibinababa ang tax? Sino ang mga may ari ng mga mina sa Pilipinas?
Ni recommend na dati na ipasara na ang mga POGO sa Pilipinas. Sa cost benefit analysis na ginawa namin noon, mas malaki ang cost kaysa sa benepisyo na nakukuha natin dito. Andyan pa din. Baka may nakikinabang…
#WagKangKuCorrupt
Senator
@risahontiveros
and Senator
@WinGatchalian74
inspect the recently raided POGO company Smart Web Technology in Pasay City.
Areas inspected include the grocery store, call center area where one can book a massage therapist, and the supposedly cheapest room that can be…
“It is true that the political side of our family is going through a rough patch right now... So I thank you, Sen.Imee Marcos, for your continued support,” Duterte said.
Accustomed to her city’s culture of silence, Sara was a spoiled brat in Davao City. The nation has no plans to treat her the same way. In the national fishbowl, her every entitlement will be scrutinized, her secrets revealed.
@GLangrez
@lenirobredo
Sige nga, pakihanap ang report na discrepancy. Evidence-based po tayo. Madali naman mag research. Kung mahanap mo, I repost mo. Ngayon kasi ang malinaw may lumustay sa pera ng bayan na P125M ng 11 days. Huwag apologist lang.
What should not be forgotten in the CF issue is: It is the VP that must ultimately be held accountable.
She requested the CF. She spent it on questionable expenses- 125M in 19 days. She has not offered a full explanation or accounting.
Nakakaiwas sa mga tanong natin eh.
I am, of course, greatly dismayed by the OSG's move in elevating to the CA the judgment of my acquittal in one of my 3 trumped-up drug cases.
An acquittal is an acquittal, a final and conclusive disposition of the merits of the case which, (1/3)
Human rights matter in every single case, whether it's the Philippines, West Papua, Palestine or anywhere else.
It’s shocking that Labor and the Liberals would rather censure me than call out President Marcos' lethal regime. They must do better to represent Australia’s values.
Congress should reallocate the confidential and intelligence funds of the Office of the President to protect the WPS. That’s 4.6B pesos! Increase the budget of PCG and the Navy.
Al Jazeera on a Philippine coast guard vessel in the
#SouthChinaSea
on Nov. 10 just one nautical mile from the Second Thomas Shoal, where Manila has grounded an old warship to stake its claim. Supply ships able to get through but all around us were Chinese ships - 28 militia, 5…
Yung mga maingay sa MOOE ng mga senador at congressman, agree ako dyan. Pero bakit hindi natin tawagin si Cong. Pulong Duterte para mag expose. Chair sya dati ng Committee on Accounts, in charge sa budget nila. Alam na alam nya yan
#PulongExposeMOOEnaman
#WagKangKuCorrupt
Tinanong ako kanina ni
@_djchacha
kung ano yung mga pinaka ridiculous posts on confidential fund na nabasa ko dito sa X. Finally may nakita na ako. Eto ang reaction nya sa graph 🤦♀️
Hindi naman ako ang COA, bakit sakin hinahanap 🤔 Parang basic naman yan ng research, hanapin ang data sa main source. Tinuturo naman yan sa grad school, actually kahit sa undergrad hehe
THIS SHOW IS NOT CONFIDENTIAL! ❌🤫
In our first episode of
#BeTheGood
, we talk to former finance undersecretary
@cielo_magno
on her Wag Kang KuCorrupt movement and why she thinks confidential funds need to be abolished.
#CourageON
Ang proposed budget ng Office of the Vice President ay Php 2.385 billion. May matitira pang Php 1.885 billion kung tatanggalin ang confidential fund. Hindi po zero.
'Di naman dapat nating i-zero. Kung i-zero natin 'yan ginawa n'yong inutil, sinong makikinabang? 'Yung enemies of the state,' Sen. Bato dela Rosa said.
Lawyers Howard Calleja, retired justice Antonio Carpio, along with several civil society advocates, file a case at the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality, among others, of the confidential and intelligence funds.
May mga tao na ang comment ay bobo daw ako, pa research naman ng pa research sa MOOE at extraordinary expenses 😅 nung isang araw po nag discuss kami ni
@robyalampay
kung saan maghahanap ng data sa pumapodcast. Para matuto tayong lahat mag research :)
These latest developments mean it will now be up to the discretion of the last remaining court to decide whether the staunch critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte goes free after seven years in jail, or stays there indefinitely.
What can you say Davao City? Masaya ba kayo kung paano nagamit ang pondo nyo ng dating mayora nyo?
Maaari po nating makita ang detalye ng revenue at expenditure ng ating LGUs sa website ng Bureau of Local Government Finance (BLGF).
#ThisIsWhereYourTaxesGo
#entitled
#priorities
Sa mga naghahanap naman po ng annual data on receipts (revenues) at expenditure ng local government units, maaari po ma download sa Bureau of Local Government Finance website. Dito makikita ang functional expenditure ng LGUs.
Hackers have apparently defaced the Philippine House of Representatives website, a cursory viewing of the website in question showed on Sunday, October 15.
The site appears to have been taken offline as of 12:13 pm.
Honored to be selected to be part of the global steering committee of the Open Gov Partnership
@opengovpart
. Let’s continue to fight corruption at the local, national and international levels. Just one correction. I’m already a former NC of Bantay Kita, now member of its board.
Dr. Cielo Magno, Prof. at the University of the Philippines' School of Economics and National Coordinator of
@BantayKita
, joins the steering committee with her extensive global perspective and experience in fiscal policy, anti-corruption, good governance & extractives openness.
BREAKING: Three dead after a Filipino fishing boat was rammed by an unidentified commercial vessel near the Bajo de Masinloc (Scarborough Shoal) early morning Monday, October 2, according to the Philippine Coast Guard.
Full story to follow on
Tama, paghandaan ang mga haharaping paghihirap kaya
#AbolishConfidentialFunds
. Kailangan ng malinaw at maayos na programa sa paggasta ng pera ng bayan. Kailangan bantayan ang pera ng bayan.
#WagKangKuCorrupt
(UPDATE) ELEVEN members of the House of Representatives have joined the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), the party of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., The Manila Times learned from a highly reliable source on Friday.
Most of them belonged to the Partido Demokratikong…
Senate Minority Leader Koko Pimentel argued that the OP should not be given intelligence funds, pointing out that Mr. Marcos is actually just a “consumer and user” of intelligence reports generated by defense and law enforcement units.
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Our students may forget most of the lectures and the lessons we taught them. But we hope they don’t forget to do good, to do right and serve the people.
#UPGraduation
P300 MILLION CONFI FUNDS FOR NATIONAL FIREWALL, EXPERT TRAINING
DICT Spokesperson Asec. Renato Paraiso disclosed that the P300 million in confidential funds was originally intended for the establishment of a firewall and the training of cybersecurity experts.
#BantayBudget2024
The Sandiganbayan on Friday sentenced businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles to at least 64 years in prison after finding her guilty of graft and four counts of malversation of public funds.
The case was in connection with the illegal disbursement of at least P20 million from the…
People are asking, did Sec.
@SecBenDiokno
stand up for Cielo Magno in Malacañang? The former undersecretary says “I know he fought for me😊.” She adds “I told him before I left na whatever is said on soc med, we are ok.”