Food czar’s P9.8-B budget for urban irrigation ‘wasteful’

AN anti-corruption watchdog has called on all other concerned groups to take a second look at a P9.8-billion budget allocated to the office of food security head Secretary Francis Pangilinan, purportedly for irrigation projects in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region or NCR.

Mike Domingo, convenor of People for Empowerment and Truth (PET), over the weekend described the multibillion-budget allocation as a “total waste of the people’s hard earned money.”