ALL I

ell me a FACT and I will LEARN.

Tell me the TRUTH and I will BELIEVE

Tell me a STORY and it will

LIVE FOREVER IN MY
HEART.
These are the
FACTS:
General Appropriations
Act 2008
page 563

Construction of Pres. Garcia Avenue Ext.

from SLEX to Sucat Road including ROW
General Appropriations
Act 2008
page 646

Construction of C5 Road Extension

from SLEX to Sucat Road including ROW
Masterful? Maybe. Neat? Well,
almost.
GAA 2008
Page 563

GAA 2008
Page 646
This is the
TRUTH:
f September 8, 2008: What remains of the bill
at C-5 Extension, beside SM Sucat
 General Appropriations
Act
page 564

1. Widening of Governor’s Drive (Carmona-Dasmariñas-Trece Martires City

Road) including Bridges
c. Aguinaldo Bridge.
 General Appropriations
Act
page 646

b. Urgent Infrastructure Including Local Projects

6. Repair/Rehabilitation of Aguinaldo Bridge
 HOUSE BILL 2454
The RED and the BLACK,
The LEFT and the RIGHT
Pataas, ng Pataas, ng Pataas...

SENATE version: New item worth P3.950 billion

* P50 million for Aguinaldo Bridge
* P200 million for construction of C-5 Road Extension from
SLEX to Sucat, including right of way.
* P1.760 billion lump sum for various infrastructure projects

2454 BLACK: P65,461,538,000 (difference of P12,812,615,000

HB 2454 RED: P52,648,923,000 (DPWH locally
funded projects)
 Insertions in the Senate
• Kibawe-Kadingilan-Kalinangan Road, P5 million; and Don
Carlos-Kadingilan Road, P25 million, both in Bukidnon;
• Construction of access road, West Lateral Dike connecting
to Hacienda Dolores, Porac Interchange of the Subic-Clark-
Tarlac Expressway, P100 million;
• Completion of the Cagayan de Oro International Trade and
Convention Multi-Purpose Center, P100 million;
• Tagaytay-Silang Road, Balalang-Matanda section, P13
million;
• Construction of Molino Boulevard, in Cavite, including right
of way, P37 million;
• Construction of C-5 Road Extension from SLEX to Sucat,
including right of way, P200 million – This is the first
discovered double entry; and
• Aguinaldo Bridge, P50 million – This is the second
discovered double entry
• P200 million for Maharlika Road, God knows which part
 LUMP SUM insertions in the
Senate
• Repair and rehabilitation, including improvement of safety standards of various roads
along public schools, P100 million;

• Flood Control and Drainage System, P500 million;

• Construction, repair and rehabilitation of government facilities

• including educational facilities, P760 million;

• Rehabilitation, reconstruction of damaged paved national roads generated from

payment management system/highway development and management, nationwide,
P50 million;

• Road upgrading, gravel to concrete, based on gravel road, strategies traffic

benchmark for upgrading to paved road standard, nationwide: P50 million; and

• Over and above all these, without any specification and merely lumped as "Various
infrastructure projects," there is a lump sum of P1.760 billion.
BICAMERAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:
* P3.95 billion rose to P4.1 billion
(Other national public works/local infrastructure
projects doubled Senate version’s lump sum to
P3,426,500,000)
GAA 2008: MORE LUMP SUMS!
* P4,000,000,000
* P7,981,565,000
* Total lump sum appropriations in the 2008 budget
of the DPWH alone amounted to P23,467,383,000

Not only do we have double entries in the

line budget items. We also have double
entries in the lump sum appropriations
 DAR Personnel Services Funds:
Not Once, But Twice!

Office of the Secretary PS : P1,854,247,000

Agrarian Reform Fund PS: P1,890,273,000

* ARF is a specific fund that has no staffing support

 Why did the budget not specifically describe
each of the P200M entries as in the other
appropriations for several projects in the same
2008 GAA?

Quezon Eco-tourism Road: P281M Quirino-Andaya Highway: P515M

Phase 1: P190M Quirino Highway: P164.8M
Phase 2: P91M Andaya Highway: P350.2M.

Candelaria By-Pass Road, Quezon: P100M MSR-Quirino, Las Piñas City: P25M
Bukal Sur section: P20M MSR-Quirino Phase I: P15M
Masin Sur section: P20M MSR-Quirino Phase II: P10M
Pahinga Norte section: P20M
Malabanban Sur section: P20M
Mangilag Sur: P20M
P200 million is...

“A molehill”
- Pipol’s Dragon

“Loose change”
- “Ito ang Gusto Ko!”
Molehill? Loose Chang
P200 million can secure:
Medicines for sick people

Uniforms, boots and equipme

to defend Mindanao
Upgrading of C-130s
that need not crash out
of age and fatigue
Helicopters to transport soldie
wounded in the line of duty
“Excusatio non petita
accusatio manifesta”

He who EXCUSES himself,

ACCUSES himself.
This is NOT about PRESIDENTIABLES.

This is NOT about POLITICS.

This is NOT about 2010.

This is about
CORRUPTION.
PLAIN and SIMPLE.
Let me tell you
a STORY:
 INGIT
at AGA
PATAS ang
Laban
Para PATAS ang
Laban
Let us lose no time and start an honest-to-
goodness, no-nonsense investigation of
these discovered anomalies in the national
budget.
He who is responsible for attempts to
defraud our taxpayers by a sinister insertion
of a second entry on projects already funded
under the same budget book must stand by
the side and spare this institution from the
shame and disgust of our constituents – the
Filipino manor...
people,
Just be enough to admit his
indiscretion, then apologize to the
taxpayers of this once great nation that
puts us all in this hall.
 TRUTH is SIMPLE.
It is LIES that are
COMPLICATED.
Who among us proposed the insertion of a
redundant appropriation of P200M for C5
Road to extend SLEX to Sucat Road in
Parañaque City in the 2008 GAA?
Who among us has business and financial
interests in the development of the
extension of C5 Road, now renamed Carlos
P. Garcia Ave from SLEX to Sucat Road in
Parañaque City?
PATAS ang
Laban