SENATORS threw their full support to the proposal of Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) Chairman Andres Bautista to abolish the agency.

Sen. Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan 2nd said that the commission should shut down if it is finished with its job of recovering the alleged ill-gotten wealth of the late strongman, Ferdinand Marcos, his family and cronies.

“If the PCGG was able to fulfill its mandate, then it’s about time that the agency should be abolished,” Honasan told The Manila Times.

“This is politically good. It is one way to put a closure to this pestering issue that take its toll on our political life,” he added.

Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero also backed Bautista’s proposal but he called for a performance audit and accounting of all the sequestered assets.

Escudero said that the move to turn over pending cases and the recovered assets to different agencies of the government will augur well for the state’s coffers.

He said that the commission should “present to the public the current value of its forfeited assets to address long standing allegations against the PCGG that its officials helped squander the little assets the agency had recovered.”

Malacañang on Thursday said that it is up to Congress to decide whether the PCGG should be abolished.

There are several bills pending bills in Congress seeking the abolition of the PCGG abolition.

During the 14th Congress, then sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel Jr. filed Senate Bill 292, which seeks to abolish the commission, which was created under Executive Order No. 1 issued by the late president Corazon “Cory” Aquino on February 28, 1986.