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The left-leaning Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) continued its expose’ on the anomalies in the Department of Agriculture, and now charged the department of unliquidating cash advances for more than 15 years. “Why didn’t Cito do anything about it and why is it that during his watch it not only continued but it got worse?” queried Danilo “Ka Daning” Ramos, secretary general of the group. “These anomalies were presented by the Commission on Audit long ago and they suggested means on how it can be resolved? But what happened? An anomaly this big that has gone through the whole department, passing through 88 officers and the chief of the department himself, speaks of the breadth of the corruption not only in the agency but it can be traced even up to the Office of the President,” stressed the peasant leader. Meanwhile according to Carl Anthony Ala, public information officer of KMP “for more than 15 years the accountable persons for the plunder of taxpayers’ money have gone scot-free and basked on the funds for the peasants. All of them should be hauled into court and sent to the gallows, beginning with Cito Lorenzo, Jocelyn Bolante and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself. This has gone long enough justice must be done for the aggrieved peasant masses,” “The report of the COA itself shows how rampant corruption is in the DA and how funds have continuously been siphoned for other purposes, let’s see how sacred a cow Cito Lorenzo is in the eye of his patron President Macapagal-Arroyo, who may not stay long in power also,” ended Ala. Unliquidated cash advances for more than
15 years given to disbursing officers
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