Farmers call for transparency in calamity fund
“These funds exist for emergencies like this. The government’s failure to release them quickly and transparently is costing lives and livelihood,”
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“These funds exist for emergencies like this. The government’s failure to release them quickly and transparently is costing lives and livelihood,”
To compare, the lost portion of the proposed 2020 calamity fund is just P500 million short of the so-called black budget (P4.5 billion), or the combined intelligence and confidential funds, of the Office of the President (OP). The OP was allocated with a P8.2-billion budget.
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