00:00 Good afternoon. A judge is accusing Vice President Sara Duterte of over P2 billion in confidential funds in her six-year term as mayor of Davao City.
00:17 That's even bigger than the expenses of the three richest cities in the country.
00:22 Jonathan Andal is the witness.
00:27 According to Audit Reports of the Commission on Audit, which was assessed by JM Integrated News Research,
00:31 in the two-term term of Vice President Sara Duterte as mayor of Davao City from 2016 to 2022,
00:38 the local government spent P2.6 billion in confidential funds.
00:45 From 2019 until before she ran as the second president in May 2022,
00:50 the government spent P460 million in confidential funds annually.
00:56 If this is really useful for Davao City, we should have a performance report.
01:05 The least is to return it if it's not accounted properly.
01:09 According to House Deputy Minority Leader Franz Castro, if you include,
01:13 the government spent P1.2 million in confidential funds annually in Davao City by the mayor of Lunsod, VP Sara, in the past six years.
01:23 According to JM Integrated News Research,
01:26 this is bigger than the confidential funds of the three richest cities in the Philippines from 2016 to 2022.
01:33 P1.4 billion in Makati City, P477.5 million in Manila,
01:39 and P435 million in Quezon City, the richest city in the country.
01:44 The Vice President will not comment on this for now.
01:48 The House Appropriations Committee Chairman Representative Elizalde Co. said that the OVP, DepEd, and other civilian agencies
01:55 will transfer confidential and intelligence funds to the agencies that are in charge of the waters in the West Philippine Sea.
02:02 For GMA Integrated News, Jonathan Andal, for 24 Hours.
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