intelligence funds

it is only one of two things,
  • local officials are extremely stupid or
  • geniuses bordering on insanity.

the commission on audit recently released reports of 11 local towns in Cebu with unliquidated cash advances of almost Php 16.3 million and a big part of unaccounted and mysterious expenses are related to "intelligence funds". a lot of the advances are violations of Section 4.1.2 of COA Circular No. 97-002 that prohibits advances by an individual while previous transactions remain pending.

naga tops the list with p4.9M unliquidated cash advances and p3M granted to the now deceased former mayor ferdinand chiong. someone has got to explain what that intelligence fund is all about. from what i know, there's enough intelligence in the town hall - courtesy of underworked government employees who pick up the latest episode of every melodrama currently playing in town.

that hardly counts as improving intelligence.

recently, the city council of cebu proposed to wipe out previous unliquidated advances and transactions that can't be traced (side note, a lot of the transactions indicate intelligence funds). considering that city hall has the same runts (well, almost..) for the past decade or so, intelligence funds could have found a better use to purchase drugs for memory loss.

questions:

  1. why the hell is treasury releasing advances when there are pending ones?
  2. what is the department of the interior and local government (dilg) doing to pursue these obvious cases of abuse and graft versus individuals who haven't done their liquidation?
  3. why not use their montly salary to pay off unliquidated advances? on second thought, they may add "salary" to advances and make "salary advances" instead.

we the voting public, obviously need to vote wiser and intelligent government officials so they don't need to spend so much for "intelligence funds" - serves us right for voting leaders whose idea of a political platform is one built of wooden slats and sparkling lights decorating the stage.

if senator lacson had his way, he'd use intelligence funds to wiretap conversations. now, that's really SMART - pun intended.

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allegations were made that the wiretapping happened using SMART networks in the "Hello Garci" scandal.

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