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(Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) admitted it is running short of budget for calamity funds, particularly for many local government units affected by the Taal Volcano eruption as these LGUs already reported either “depleted” or nearly depleted risk reduction funds. “We have received information on the ground that many of the local government units have now a depleted risk reduction and management fund,” said Interior Undersecretary Epimaco […]
(Eagle News) — The Sandiganbayan has acquitted Senator JV Ejercito of the technical malversation case filed against him over the allegedly anomalous use of P2.1 million in calamity funds in 2008, when he was San Juan mayor. In its 32-page decision, the sixth division also acquitted Ejercito’s 14 co-accused–Leonardo Gonzales Celles, Andoni Miguel Lopez Carballo, Vincent Rainier Manago Pacheco, Dante Espiritu Santiago, Grace Cortes Pardines, Francis Keith Peralta, Edgardo Velarde Soriano, Jannah-Altarejos-Surla, Joseph Christopher Torralba, […]
