Sotto flays Palace on ploy to make him budget villain
By Angie M. Rosales 11/30/2010Instead of depicting him as an obstructionist, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III yesterday said Malacañang should instead justify P880 million in the Department of Health ‘s (DoH) budget that would would be solely spent on the purchase of contraceptives.
Sotto took issue with President Aquino’s spokesmen who he said are making him appear as an “obstructionist” in the approval of the P1.6 trillion national budget.
The senator issued the statement after an “assurance” made by Palace deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte that the entire P32.7 budget proposed next year for the Department of Health (DoH) will be used for the government’s population control program.
Valte said only a portion of it will actually be used to fund the purchase of contraceptives.
Sotto has been open in questioning the appropriation of some P880 million for acquisition of condoms, pills and other forms of contraceptives in the DoH’s 2011 budget, supposedly for distribution to the poor..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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