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(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, July 22, gave Land Bank until the end of July to present to him a plan of “reconfiguration.” In his State of the Nation Address, Duterte said Landbank should return to helping farmers and not just focus on commercial transactions. When asked what exactly he wanted reconfigured in a press conference after SONA, Duterte said Land Bank “must participate..create cooperatives again, and for Land Bank to go to the […]
(Eagle News) — The Senate on Tuesday, Jan. 22, adopted the House of Representatives’ bill seeking to abolish the Road Board. With the adoption of revised House Bill 7436, a bicameral conference committee will no longer have to be convened. The bill will therefore be directly sent to President Rodrigo Duterte for his approval. The adoption came following issues about whether or not the Road Board could be abolished in the first place amid developments in […]
(Eagle News)–For Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, there is no need to convene a bicameral conference committee on Road Board abolition. In the first place, Drilon said in a statement, the Senate “has already taken the position that the bill to abolish the Road Board is already approved by virtue of its adoption of House Bill 7436 on September 12.” “When we adopted the House bill on September 12, there are no more disagreeing provisions..The Senate’s […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Dec. 22, welcomed House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr.’s statement the House of Representatives would heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for the abolition of the Road Board. “We are pleased to know that the House of Representatives has listened to the voice of the people who have long been outraged by the corruption surrounding the use of the said tax,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said in a statement. According to […]
(Eagle News)—–House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya Jr. on Saturday, Dec. 22, said the House of Representatives would heed President Rodrigo Duterte’s call for the Road Board to be abolished. In a radio interview, Andaya said there should be “real abolition” of the board, which determines where the motor vehicle users’ charge goes. The MVUC is paid by motorists upon registration of their vehicles. According to Andaya, the proceeds “need to be included as a line-item fund […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday, Dec. 21, said he wanted the Road Board abolished, putting an end to debates about what he believed the Road Board’s fate should be. “I have always been wary about this office because it has been the milking cow of people who are in government,” he said of the office tasked to determine where the motor vehicle users’ charges go. The MVUC is paid by motorists upon registration of […]
(Eagle News) – Malacanang said that President Rodrigo Duterte is still intent to abolish the Road Board for alleged anomalies in its appropriation of the P45 billion road users’ funds, even if the lower House under the leadership of House Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had backtracked from the previous House leadership’s position on the Board’s abolition. Palace Spokesperson Salvador Panelo told reporters that President Duterte is just waiting for the copy of the signed bill […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, Sept. 11, said he may recommend the abolition of the National Food Authority Council. According to Duterte, he may make the recommendation to Congress. “It has not done any purpose. It only hinders the operation (of the NFA),” Duterte said. According to Duterte, “we need not have four or five” people who will make the decisions. He said “one” was enough. In the same speech, Duterte said […]
