A PROGRESSIVE youth movement applauded the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee for recommending last January 19 the filing of graft and perjury cases for violation of Republic Act 3019, or the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, against several figures—including high-ranking officials of the Department of Education involved in the agency’s botched purchase of laptops in May 2021.
The committee report was signed by 12 senators, including Sen. Francis Tolentino as its chairman and the two minority legislators: Senators Aquilino Pimentel III and Ana Theresia “Risa” Hontiveros. “This is a severe crime against …teachers who were directly affected, their students, and the Philippine education sector as a whole,” the group decried. It wants the involved officials “stripped of all effective power, and [be] held to account for their crimes.”
Other than the immediate respondents, the group claimed that private contractors who benefited from the defective laptops deal must be also held accountable for swindling the masses.
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