Opening the door to corruption
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Dinky Soliman’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) project is not all that she and Noynoy make it appear to be.
For one, it was learned from the Senate deliberations on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) budget that out of the P21 billion earmarked for the CCT, P4 billion — yes, a cool P4 billion — will go to the hiring of some P4,000 workers next year to implement the administration’s CCT program, which leaves just P17 billion to give away to the claimed poorest of the poor in the country.
That’s a lot of money — and a lot of room for corruption, along with political manuevring from someone who gets moist-eyed looking toward getting a future Senate seat.
Having 4,000 new hires, plus the old hires would be a potential workers’ election base would be what a senatorial aspirant could easily tap, along with the 2.4 million poor family-beneficiaries as an added base for votes..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101202com1.html
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