President Marcos said he is not concerned about planned anti-corruption protests on Nov. 30, Bonifacio Day, but warned against agitators who might use demonstrations to incite violence.
00:00Good evening, Mr. President. Another large-scale protest is slated for November 30 on Bonifacio Day with rights groups convening since October.
00:13And they said it's going to be bigger than September 21st. Is this a cause for concern, sir?
00:18A cause for? No. The only concern I have when we have demonstrations for whatever reason is that there are agitators who will go and try to cause trouble.
00:36What demonstrator goes to a demonstration with Molotov cocktails that are not intending to cause trouble or to hurt people?
00:52Those are the people that we are worried about. And those are the people that we are watching out for.
00:58We have a good idea who they are. And I hope that they don't...
01:03It's not going to happen. It's going to hurt you. It's going to hurt you.
01:10It's going to hurt you. It's going to hurt you. It's going to hurt you sometimes.
01:14The police, they don't know the police. They're just there to control the crowd. They're not there to hurt anyone.
01:23So that's the only thing I worry about. That's the only thing I worry about.
01:27Because we know the reasons for this. The reasons is the outrage for what we have been...
01:33slowly or not so slowly discovering about some of these projects that were egregious in implementation
01:40and shameless in, I don't know what you want to call it, in dishonesty and abuse.
01:48So, of course, that will be a cause for outrage.
01:59You know, those funds are supposed to go to people, to feed people, to make their lives better.
02:04And that will disappear because they're buying airplanes and buying big mansions, kung saan-saan.
02:09It's, you know, of course, they'll be angry.
02:14Isipin mo, ang buhay nila ganyan, kami gutom.
02:18How can you be happy?
02:23Thank you, Mr. President. Ivy, any follow-up questions? That's all.
02:26The next question from Eden, Net25.
02:29Mr. President, good evening po.
02:36More than a month na pong na itatag yung ICI, going back to the position of ICI,
02:42may we know po kung meron na po bang nai-alat na budget o pondo para sa...
02:46Mayroon na.
02:46Kung meron na pong naila ang budget.
02:49May budget na po ba ang ICI para sa kanilang...
02:52How much?
02:54Kasi po sinasabi ng ICI last night.
02:56I don't have the details kasi.
02:59It...
02:59Joke ko joke din eh.
03:01Kasi sinap...
03:02We had to...
03:03Once we appointed the people who were going to sit on the ICI,
03:08then they had to do the organizational part.
03:11And then we asked them, you know, we won't tell you.
03:14Kasi nga talaga gusto kong ayoko makialam.
03:17So, ang sanabi na lang namin, ano yung kailangan ninyo?
03:21So, how much will it cost?
03:22We will provide the...
03:23We will provide the fund.
03:24And it's not a big amount.
03:26Because it's really staffing.
03:29You know, computers, printers, the usual office equipment.
03:34So, I can...
03:36We can...
03:37So, it keeps changing.
03:38The number keeps changing.
03:40So, but we can...
03:41We can provide...
03:43We can provide some...
03:44I don't know what the latest numbers are.
03:47Kasi yun na nga.
03:48Una yung staffing ka.
03:49Pantilang tapos medyo dumami.
03:52Then they're trying to get...
03:54Create other departments to do the research,
03:57to do the investigation,
03:58to do the forensic accounting.
04:00All of those things.
04:01So, it's a work in progress.
04:04That's the best way I could put it.
04:07It's a work in progress.
04:09We are, again, committed to providing whatever funding is necessary.
04:13And we can get to you...
04:16It's not going to be a final number.
04:18But we'll get to you what we've done so far.
04:20Pero kailan po talaga na ibigay yung kanilang budget?
04:23Kailan po na ibigay sa ICI yung budget nila?
04:27Kasi two weeks ago pa parang...
04:28Nagsabi na wala silang fund.
04:31Wala silang funds doon sa mga gusto nilang gawin.
04:34Kasi talaga bago lang.
04:36Sabi, we need more of this.
04:38We need this that we didn't realize we needed before.
04:41So, hindi pa namin na pondohan.
04:43But, like I said, we're committed to make sure that they can...
04:47To fund their investigation.
04:50To make sure that everything that they want to do with the investigation, they can do.
04:55That they have all the people that they need.
04:57That they have all of the whatever equipment that they need.
05:00All of that.
05:01Even information, which is probably the most important thing of all.
05:06And, you know, funding is important.
05:08But, if the biggest, I think the most important promise I made to them is that any single item of information
05:15that you require from any department in the executive, you have it.
05:21No questions, no subpoena, no nothing.
05:23You have it.
05:24Basta i-request nyo sa amin na sa inyo na.
05:27That's probably the most important commitment that we made.
05:31Beyond the funding.
05:38Basta i-request nyo sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa inyo na sa
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