Loud noise over WPS masks pitiful P80M for KIG | Jovee Marie de la Cruz

AMID tensions in the West Philippine Sea and despite the loud protests of lawmakers, the government is only allocating P80 million to improve military facilities on Pag-asa Island in Kalayaan, Palawan, next year.

For 2024, Recto noted a measly P80 million insofar as itemized expenditures in the 2024 budget bill go. The share of Pag-asa Island, which hosts the Rancudo Air Station and Liwanag Naval Station, translates to a mere 2.1 percent of TIKAS funds. [The airstrip of Rancudo Air Station will just melt away. It needs shore protection. And yet it didn’t get even a drizzle of the P215 billion in proposed flood control funds, where the coastal protection projects for 2024 are lodged].

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