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A total of P1.975 billion in unused funds for COVID-19 response needs to be returned by the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management to the treasury, the Commission on Audit revealed yesterday.
It’s preposterous that a construction company was one of those involved in the P2.4-billion sale of “pricey” and “outdated” laptops to the Department of Education.
In the previous administration, the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management was at the heart of a scandal involving the Department of Health’s multibillion-peso procurement, through the PS-DBM, of personal protective equipment or PPEs including supposedly overpriced face shields as the COVID-19 pandemic was starting.
Led by Rep. France Castro (ACT Teachers party-list), the three-member group filed Monday House Resolution 189 directing the committee on good governance to probe, in aid of legislation, the procurement of expensive but outdated laptops by the Department of Education.
The opposition Makabayan bloc is seeking a congressional investigation into the procurement of “overpriced” and “outdated” laptops for teachers by the Department of Education (DepEd). (DepEd/File photo) Under House Resolution No. 189, the Makabayan bloc, composed of the Kabataan Party-list, Ga