Rep. Joselito Atienza of Buhay party-list is expected to question former President Benigno Aquino 3rd and former Budget Secretary Florencio Abad when these past government officials testify at a congressional probe of the P3.5-billion anti-dengue Dengvaxia immunization program, which was later found to have adverse effects on children.
“I am counting on Representative Atienza, the senior deputy minority leader and author of [a] resolution enabling the inquiry, to debrief both Aquino and Abad on the previous administration’s questionable purchase of some three million doses or P3.5-billion worth of Dengvaxia vaccines in January 2016,” Rep. Johnny Pimentel of Surigao del Sur, chairman of the House Committee on Good Government and Public Accountability, said in a statement over the weekend.
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