PCOO Undersecretary Kris Ablan (ANC Screenshot)
Ablan made the statement after the Commission on Audit (COA) flagged the PCOO’s “unrestricted and massive” hiring of contractual employees that cost the agency P70.6 million, an amount the COA said could have been used for “other programs and projects of the government.”
The COA said the number of contractual personnel accounted for 70 percent of PCOO’s total workforce. It was also 260 percent higher than the 114 regular employees in the agency.
In an interview with ANC, Ablan justified the hiring, saying most of the tasks assigned to COS personnel were “highly technical.”
“They needed the likes of graphic artists, videographers, editors, directors, colorists to produce content for other agencies as our clients,” he said Friday, July 9.
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