The Commission on Audit cites the 'absence of the proper conduct of regular monitoring and reconciliation process' for the mounting unliquidated fund transfers.
has called out the Dangerous Drugs Board for being lax in monitoring millions in agency funding downloaded to various national government agencies and local government units over the years.
COA cited “lack of control procedures on the IAs reporting responsibility” – contrary to COA Circular No. 94-013 giving grantee agencies just 10 days from the end of the month to submit reports on the public fund utilization. Under Section 3 of the Memorandum of Agreement between the DDB and the recipient agencies, the latter have one full year to complete the funded projects or programs. An extension was allowed by subject to the approval of the DDB executive director.
Over 95% or P300.69 million of the DDB’s total unliquidated fund transfers – P191.45 million for LGUs and P109.24 million for NGAs – were released in the last five years or mostly under the Duterte administration.“In the absence of the proper conduct of regular monitoring and reconciliation process, the DDB was unable to validate whether all IAs complied with the one-year period set in the MOA memorandum of agreement) to complete the project,” it said.
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