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Senators in the first hearing established that the laptops originally cost P35,000 per the price agreed to by the DepEd before the PS-DBM conducted its preliminary market survey.
"There have been many calls over the past few weeks to abolish the PS-DBM...I support these calls, but an equally – if not more urgent call – needs to be made: hold to account the officials who used the PS-DBM as their milking cow," Sen. Risa Hontiveros said at the first organizational meeting of the Blue Ribbon panel.
Cayetano said he had filed a resolution for hearings and that he was expecting the DepEd to be receptive to the calls for a probe.
The Senate blue ribbon committee has cited former Budget Undersecretary Christopher Lloyd Lao in contempt after the latter skipped another hearing by the panel into the government’s procurement of alleged overpriced medical supplies.
"Number one, I am not an agent of CCP. Number two, we will never or dare to be involved in foreign policy of the President. Number three, what we wish for is really for China and the Philippines to have very good relations... and I love the Philippines and I really wish China and the Philippines will have good relations," Yang explained.