Proposed CA review of confirmation process gains Senate momentum By Michaela P. del Callar 03/10/2011

Proposed CA review of confirmation process gains Senate momentum

By Michaela P. del Callar 03/10/2011

Senators yesterday backed a proposal to strictly scrutinize the financial assets and background of members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines who will undergo the Commission on Appointments (CA) after multi-million pesos worth of ill-gotten wealth belonging to military generals and their subordinates were uncovered.
Sen. Franklin Drilon, assistant majority floor leader of the bicameral body, said documents submitted to the CA by former AFP comptrollers Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia and Lt. Gen. Jacinto Ligot
indicate that they had insufficient income while they were in the military to purchase several properties and own bank accounts with hundreds of millions of pesos in deposits.

“The House and Senate investigation on the corruption in the Armed Forces, to my mind, reveals a weakness in our process here in the Commission on Appointments,” Drilon said during the mass confirmation of 90 military officers. “I share part of the blame.”.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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