(Eagle News) — Senator Leila de Lima on Friday, Jan. 25, lauded the Senate’s move to block payment for the P20-billion Chinese closed-circuit television camera project. “I commend the Senate for seriously evaluating and reviewing the ‘Safe Philippines’ project and asserting that funds from the taxpayers’ money should not be used to finance it. Not only is the project lacking in transparency, it also poses serious national security concerns,” she said in a statement. De […]
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Panelo: Duterte may veto Senate move to block payment for Chinese CCTV project
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte may veto the Senate’s move to block payment for the P20-billion Chinese closed-circuit television camera project. This is according to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, when asked for his reaction to the Senate’s inclusion of two provisions in its version of the 2019 national budget that have this effect on the Safe Philippines Project. The first provision, under the Unprogrammed Fund section, specifies that no amount “shall be utilized for any […]





