The mounting clamor to abolish the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) is well grounded. It has been at the center of several anomalies involving scarce public funds, from the disgusting Pharmally scam relating to the wastage of funds of the Department of Health (DOH) earmarked for pandemic supplies, to the controversial purchase by the Department of Education of laptops for teachers that the Commission on Audit (COA) claimed were pricey
A professor and habitual reader asked me three questions: “(1) Do you believe the ad interim nomination or appointment of Compañero George Garcia as chairman of the Commission on Election [Comelec] can withstand constitutional scrutiny? (2) Should he not have declined the appointment given that he has so many clients, including the President, with pending cases and administrative problems in the Commission? And (3) Can Saidamen Pangarungan and Aimee Torrefranca-Neri be returned to the Comelec?” LET US BEGIN THE ANSWERS WITH THE CONSTITUTION which states that the Comelec “Chairman and the Commissioners shall be appointed by the President with the consent
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