House of Representatives Budget Committee Vice Chair and Ako Bicol Party List Representative Jil Bongalon called for accountability after Vice President Sara Duterte alleged that the Department of Education's budget was mismanaged even during her term.
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“If there were indeed budget problems, why are they only being addressed now? It’s easy to blame others, but true leadership is about finding solutions and taking responsibility,” Bongalon said.
Duterte said in an interview that one of the reasons she resigned as Education Secretary was the mishandling of the budget, which she had tried in vain to correct.
"What's wrong? You've never said anything like that before. It was actually mostly your undersecretaries who were talking, making it seem like you didn't know what was going on in DepEd," Bongalon said.
