{"id":138948,"date":"2017-12-13T05:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138948"},"modified":"2017-12-13T05:03:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:03:35","slug":"former-dswd-secretary-denies-allegations-on-funding-npa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/13\/former-dswd-secretary-denies-allegations-on-funding-npa\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DSWD secretary denies allegations on funding NPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo condemned President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s claims that the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the government supported the New People\u2019s Army (NPA) during the time when she was still the Social Welfare and Development secretary, calling it \u201cbaseless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Taguiwalo opposed the accusations and said that \u201cFor the record and for the President\u2019s own awareness, not a single peso of the 4Ps (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) passed through my hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">She added that, \u201cThe program funds are directly coursed through the Landbank and its conduits who then make direct payout to the Pantawid beneficiaries. These transactions are recorded and the Commission on Audit regularly audits this program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This was after Duterte disclosed on Tuesday that the NPA received money from the 4P&#8217;s in which they used to buy bullets and guns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Furthermore, Duterte said that he wouldn\u2019t mind if the rebels used the money to buy something to eat but since it was used to buy guns then it\u2019s her problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you use the money to buy guns and the military kills you for it, then that\u2019s your problem. I have to defend my oath of office,\u201d Duterte said, addressing Taguiwalo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, Palace Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said that the palace is yet to confirm the information on the President&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 08 \/\u00a030 \/ 17)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Social Welfare Secretary Judy Taguiwalo condemned President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s claims that the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}