CALOOCAN CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- Graft and corruption cases related to the handling of cash payouts under the social amelioration program (SAP) will now be investigated by the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) and no longer by the DILG field offices.
This was clarified by Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) spokesperson Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya during the recent Laging Handa public briefing and said that DILG Secretary Eduardo Año was the one who decided to transfer the investigative legwork of corrupt practices made by barangay officials handling the SAP emergency relief cash assitance.
Since the CIDG has more investigators than the DILG field offices, Secretary Año decided to transfer the investigation to the PNP-CIDG field offices for the immediate filing of cases, Malaya said.
“Iyong mga tara, kaltas, splitting at pare-parehas ang pangalan ng nakatanggap ng SAP ay CIDG na ang mag-iimbestiga niyan. Ngunit kung mga violations of social distancing, tinolerate ni kapitan iyong tupada, nagkaroon ng parade o naging pabaya si kapitan sa mass gathering ‘yan po ang may show cause kasi administrative case ‘yan,” he added.
“Si Sec. Año will not tolerate a single instance of graft and corruption. ‘Pag may ‘tara’ (corruption system), may kaltas, merong splitting, pulis na po ang pupunta sa inyo at kung sakaling caught in the act kayo, aresto na po kayo kaagad,” he added.
The DILG spokesperson said that the public may participate in validating the list of beneficiaries of SAP in their communities by checking the list posted in barangay halls which is also a requirement for LGUs to get the 2nd tranche of SAP to be downloaded by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
“Iyong compliance ng mga barangay sa pagpaskil ay mataas, 97% ng lahat ng barangay pinaskil ang mga listahan ng kanilang mga benepisyaryo. Kaya nakikita ng mga kababayan natin kung sino ang tiwali dahil makikita mo sa listahan kung mayroong anomalya,” he said
Source: https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1042063
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