Palace media arm insists 375 contractuals ‘not trolls’; lawmaker not buying it

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ICYMI : The 375 “contract of service” personnel hired by the PCOO in 2020 to the tune of P70.6 million were “social media specialists” and not online trolls, according to PCOO Undersecretary Kris Ablan.

“The unrestricted/massive hiring of COS personnel cost the PCOO a total of P 70,688,830.39 for their salaries during the year, resulting in the depletion of government funds which could have been used for other programs and projects of the government,” the COA said in its 2020 audit report on the Palace media arm.

The lawmaker, who once headed the government workers’ union Courage, said Ablan was still unable to explain COA’s findings about the accomplishment reports submitted by the COS employees being “pro forma,” with only the names and time covered being changed. The 375 COS personnel cited by the COA were described as “service providers” in their individual contracts with the PCOO.

The PCOO earlier explained that it needed to hire COS workers “in order to augment the lack of manpower of the agency.”Last year, the House appropriations committee suspended its deliberations on its proposed 2021 budget after another ranking PCOO official, Undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy, “Red-tagged,” or linked several lawmakers to the communist insurgency without offering proof.

 

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the amount is small for such number of socmed specialists?15K each? There's something smelling fishy.

Ginawan ng title. Wala yan sa CSC at COA GovPH_PCOO sabit na sabit kayo mga pendejos! rapplerdotcom momblogger VPPilipinas dzbb PhilstarNews

Yeah right!!! Shiw us the list then....

Naalala ko tuloy yun job title na 'Floor Manager' pero Janitor pala talaga - parang ganito yun e 😁

I would like to see the job description of these so-called specialists along with samples of their work. I want to know what my taxes paid for.

pcoogov social media specialists... kasama ba si mocha uson blog yan o yung banat by? Lol. We demand transparency.

Bat hindi ba specialty ng trolls ang mang-troll sa socmed?

Naku wag nyo kaming gawin tanga.refund nyo yang 70million!

Spit out their names and show us their accomplishments please. 2020 was such an awful, accursed year (for lack of a better term) where a LOT, A WHOLE LOT of FILIPINOS lost their jobs, suffered from hunger & died due to COVID-19, to enumerate a few snafus we went thru...1/n

ONLINE TROLLS!!!

Abolish PCOO now please, di naman kailangan ng gobyerno ng ala media ntework na departamento... Laki pa ng gastos sa sweldo, hlgh tech equipments/gadgets at renta na millions.

Tell it to the Marines

Senado at HoR, how about protecting our budget, wala bang hearing tong pangwawaldas ng PCOO sa trolls gamit ang pera ng taumbayan?

Isa lang ang presidente therefore isa lang dapat ang mensahe. Ano magagawa ng 375 na 'bunganga' para magkalat ng mensahe? Kaya nga lagi kayo napipintasan gumawa ng Viber group sa dami ng bunganga taliwas sinasasabi.

Can someone check sino sino ang 375 na yan at i check ang socmed accounts nila? Tig iilan ang profile niyan bawat isa?

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.

What do they do exactly? iampinglacson imbestigahan po sana ninyo ito, kung ano ang specific job description nila at bakit parang napakadami naman ata.

And somehow they need 375 of those ? LOLOL. To do what exactly? To watch and observe only? To comment back? And graphic artists can easily make infographics you don't need so many. Do other depts use them as well, just funded by COO? DOH uses a lot of infographics, fr exmple

kris_ablan ano ang 'highly technical skills' para sa isang social media specialist? Pag hindi yan highly technical, ay putangina mo, kung hindi kayo mapapakulong ni andanar, galit na lang ng taong bayan ang maghuhusga sa inyo. Maawa ka sa pamilya mo pag nangyari yun.

Parang si Mocha ang manager nila ano? 🤣

Okaaaay

S I N U N G A L I N G.

“Social Media Specialists” 😂

I call our pig 'batsoy' but it is still a pig - it still cries oink oink.

Dinaig nyo pa ang isang Departamento sa gobyerno...eh unit lang naman kayo under malacanang...emagine the 375 social media specialist...aka...duterte trolls...aprobado po ba yan ng civil service commission or dole or kasabwat din sila

Anong job description nila?

70.6 million pesos! andame gutom mga sir at mga mam!

'Social media specialists' whose job is to troll online.

Ganyan kalala ang Gobyerno ngayon kailangan gumastos ng todo to make this Government look good.

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