COA questions agri council’s cash advances

The National Agricultural and Fishery Council’s (NAFC) outstanding cash advances to officers and employees totaled P4.035 million as of end-2014, of which P3.715 million remained unliquidated after more than two to 35 years, state auditors said.

The Commission on Audit (COA) in a 2014 audit report attributed the accumulation of outstanding balances to the council’s “non-adherence” to existing rules and regulations on the grant, use and liquidation of cash advances.