00:00The camera will continue the investigation on rice hoarding and smuggling and other issues in the coming weeks.
00:06House Speaker Martin Romualdez has an explanation on the controversial program, ACAP.
00:12Daniel Manalastas is in the center of the news.
00:17On the opening of the session of the camera, on the question of House Speaker Martin Romualdez,
00:22he denied some investigations that the camera will launch in the coming weeks.
00:27We will investigate the smuggling and hoarding that undermine our farmers and inflate food prices.
00:34Aside from that, he will also investigate the underutilized funds of PhilHealth,
00:39as well as the billions of Pesos worth of expired medicines.
00:43He will also look into the confidential funds.
00:46Romualdez has a hard time with those who are attacking to stop the investigation.
00:51To those who are attacking us to stop the investigation, we have a message for them.
00:59We will continue the work that our government is entrusting to us.
01:04We will not back down in any battle for the country.
01:13Romualdez also denied that despite the trials that the country faced last year,
01:18there are good news for our economy.
01:22This growth is the fruit of visionary leadership under President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.,
01:29and his transformative Build Better, More infrastructure program,
01:34which injected over 1.2 trillion Pesos into projects that now connect dreams to opportunities across the archipelago.
01:45And lastly, Romualdez explained the controversial program ACAP.
01:50Programs like Ayuda sa Kapos Ang Kita program, ACAP, and Kadiwan ng Pangulo
01:58were launched not just as economic interventions, but expressions of our empathy.
02:05Governance, after all, must be both strategic and compassionate.
02:09Daniel Manalastas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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