SECRETARY Proceso Alcala of the Department of Agriculture (DA) received a tongue lashing on Wednesday for his failure to take action on the supposed link of DA Undersecretary for Administration and Finance Antonio Fleta to several questionable memorandums of agreement (MOA) between the agency and various local governments and even bogus non-government organization (NGOs) linked to pork barrel queen Janet Lim-Napoles.
Lawyer Genaro Jawid, legal counsel of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) was reacting to the privileged speech of Sen. Aquilino Pimentel 3rd, who announced he would be filing charges against Fleta and those involved in a syndicate behind the forging of his signature on a MOA stating that Pimentel’s office has chosen Surigao del Sur as recipient of a P10-million allocation from the DA Organic Agriculture Fund (OAF).
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