Good move, bad move EDITORIAL 09/25/2010

Good move, bad move

EDITORIAL

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09/25/2010
Abolishing agencies attached to the Office of the President (OP) can be both a good or bad thing.

More often than not, it is hardly ever the office, but the people who run it, and the actions taken by the Malacañang tenant that make the agency effective, if run well but ineffective, if run badly and its recommendations ignored by the President.

The Aquino administration is set to abolish 10 agencies under the OP, with Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa saying this would amount to big savings, budget-wise in relation to the expenses of the OP.

Some of these agencies should really be abolished, such as the North Luzon Quadrangle area, Office of External Affairs, the Luzon Urban Beltway Super Region, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change and the Office on New Government Center, to name a few. But why abolish the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission (PagC)?

Its abolition is said to be based on its being a redundant office, as there are other agencies that perform the same function.

Not quite that redundant, since the PagC’s focus and probes are solely on the officials attached to the executive branch of government and recommendatory..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100925com1.html