00:00In the NDF-ELCA, they are only about local armed conflict and local, or, there, ELCA.
00:21So that is very specific to that, local conflict and communism.
00:29So as I said, the projects and the programs of OVP target poverty alleviation, and there
00:36are so many factors affecting poverty, and there are so many threats to education, not
00:42just insurgency.
00:43But there are also other government agencies with national security mandates that you can
00:49work with, your office can work with.
00:52Yes, that is true, but we work far faster if we are allowed to purchase information
00:58and target our projects immediately on a certain school or certain barangay or certain municipality.
01:07We move faster if we can target our projects.
01:12I cannot explain confidential funds because it will entail explaining intelligence operations.
01:25And there is a law that prohibits officials who gather information because of their office
01:35to divulge it in public.
01:41So it's the Anti-Draft and Corrupt Practices Act.
01:44There is a specific provision of law.
01:48You cannot divulge confidential information that you received while in office.
02:02No, that's because that will add to cases that may be filed against me.
02:12Wait, hold on.
02:13I can answer.
02:14I can give you a very short answer with regard to ARs.
02:17I had nothing to do with the preparation of ARs.
02:20It went down to the grassroots level.
02:24So I had nothing to do with preparations of ARs.
02:28I was up here in the structure, and money went down for information.
02:34So you have no knowledge why all these things were used in your files, for instance?
02:39In the first place, we do not even know if these are ARs which came from DepEd or OVP to COA.
02:51Because there's a chain of evidence, supposedly.
02:55In Loyola, there's a chain of evidence, handling of evidence.
03:00So right now, nobody can really answer that because nobody knows if these ARs are true.
03:06Because we don't know if it came from us.
03:09That's what they're alleging.
03:11Yes, that's what they're saying.
03:13The OVPs admitted to COA.
03:15Yes, but there is a legal process in the custody of evidence.
03:21So right now, we really cannot say if the ARs came from us.
03:26Because the ARs that are with us have not been checked with the ARs that are with them.
03:35For more information, visit www.fema.gov
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