{"id":53026,"date":"2015-06-25T00:53:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=53026"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T20:39:29","slug":"coa-urges-mca-p-to-return-p600m-dap-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/25\/coa-urges-mca-p-to-return-p600m-dap-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"COA urges MCA-P to return P600M DAP funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_53027\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53027\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/601197_591219197576766_1655961142_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53027\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/601197_591219197576766_1655961142_n.jpg\" alt=\"Commission on Audit (Photo courtesy of Edlan Asis)\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/601197_591219197576766_1655961142_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/601197_591219197576766_1655961142_n-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53027\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commission on Audit building (Photo by\u00a0Edlan Asis)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 State auditors from the Commission on Audit urged the Millennium Challenge Account-Philippines (MCA-P) to refund the P600-million Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds it received in 2013, so that its projects would not be questioned and delayed.<\/p>\n<p>The COA warned the MCA-P that using DAP funds may result to legal repercussions later on.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy robaxin online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/robaxin.html\">https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/robaxin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> Thus, its programs and projects may be challenged in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>MCA-P funds were intended to be used for the Secondary National Roads Development Project (SNRDP). The infrastructure project proposed\u00a0to reconstruct major roads, build bridges and install flood control facilities in Samar provinces.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy symbicort inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/symbicort-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For this, the COA suggested that MCA-P ask the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to replace the P600 million it will refund should it decide to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the DAP funds, the US government funded $214.493 million to the SNRDP.<\/p>\n<p>MCA-P, for its\u00a0part, explained that its\u00a0funding was not covered by the Supreme Court ruling on \u2018unconstitutional\u2019 DAP funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Supreme Court did not declare that DAP per se is unconstitutional or void.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy doxycycline online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/doxycycline.html\">https:\/\/hiims.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/doxycycline.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> At the very least, it is very clear that the receipt of P600 million does not constitute a cross-border transfer of savings\u2026considering that the MCA-P is a government entity aligned within the Executive,\u201d it\u00a0explained.<\/p>\n<p>But listening to COA\u2019s advise, MCA-P had already coordinated with the DPWH, asking for the funding as it planed to return the P600 million.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court, however, clarified that some DAP programs and projects \u2018remained valid under the operative fact doctrine.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 State auditors from the Commission on Audit urged the Millennium Challenge Account-Philippines (MCA-P) to refund the P600-million Disbursement &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":53027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-53026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026","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=53026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282395,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026\/revisions\/282395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}