AN executive from the Department of the Interior and Local Government on Thursday said no public funds are being spent to serve the political ambitions of Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas 2nd.

Autere Panadero, DILG undersecretary for local government, was reacting to a claim of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) that taxpayers’ money is being used this early for shoring up Roxas’ supposed bid to run for President in the 2016 elections.

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