Oversight body vs gov’t major regulatory agencies urged
11/02/2010Members of the House of Representatives yesterday expressed disappointment over the Transparency International (TI) report even as they pushed the creation of a permanent congressional oversight committee that would monitor major regulatory agencies of the government.
The lawmakers, including Representatives Ben Evardone (Eastern Samar), Neil Tupas (Iloilo) and Juan Edgardo Angara (Aurora) said they were displeased with the latest global corruption survey.
They noted that despite the small improvement, the report shows how “deeply rooted” corruption is in the bureaucracy.
Despite improving from 139th last year to 134th this year, however, the Philippines is still being considered even as the most corrupt nation in Southeast Asia as it continues to lag far behind its neighboring countries such as Malaysia (56th), Thailand (78th), Indonesia (110th) and Vietnam (116th), according to the corruption perception index (CPI) report of TI.
“Congress has to institutionalize its efforts to fight official corruption and it cannot do so without a permanent congressional oversight committee that would monitor the performances of the major regulatory agencies of government,” Evardone said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20101102hed5.html
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