Solon questions DICT, MMDA for transferring fund for free wifi program sans Congress nod

 

 

MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker at the House of Representatives has questioned both the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) for transferring funds for the free public Wi-Fi program without Congress’ consent.

In his privilege speech during Wednesday’s session, Northern Samar 1st District Rep. Paul Daza said that DICT distributed around P3 billion to P4 billion of their P12 billion fund for the Free Wi-Fi for All Program to MMDA and several local government units through memorandum of agreements (MOAs).

The problem, however, Daza pointed out, is that there is no clear guidan…

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