00:00Convasion ng ilang senador ang hinihiling ng ombudsman na 1.66 billion pesos na 2027 budget para mapunan ang mga
00:09bakanti nilang plantilya posisyon.
00:11Pinag-iisipan namang dagdagan ang confidential funds ng ahensya.
00:16May report si Sandra Aguinaldo.
00:227.2 billion pesos ang hinihimpondo ng Office of the Ombudsman para sa susunod na taon.
00:281.66 billion pesos ay para mapunan ang kanilang plantilya posisyon.
00:34And kay ombudsman Jesus Crispin Rimulla, makatutulong ito para sa mas agresibong paglaban sa katiwalian ng gobyerno.
00:42Pero ang pondong yan, nasilip ng ilang senador dahil nasa kalahating porsyento pa lang ang napupuno nilang plantilya posisyon.
00:50May gitsan libo pa lang sa mahigit dalaban libong posisyon.
00:53How confident are you na pwede nyo mapila?
00:56If we are given the chance to really hire these people now,
01:03I think that within another year, we would have hired more than 400 people.
01:09So it will take around three years to actually fill this gap.
01:13In other words, it will even surpass the two-year period for authorizing the continuing appropriations.
01:21Yes, Your Honor, it's the absorptive capacity of the office.
01:24Hindi tayo sanay sa malaking pwersa.
01:29So we have to break it in, Your Honor.
01:31So would it be more practical na yung part of the 1.68 billion,
01:37pwede nating realign papunta sa judicial marshal?
01:46Sabi pa ni Remulya, maliit masyado ang kasalukuyan nilang opisina kaya gusto nila ng bagong office building.
01:54Nais din daw nilang bumili ng mga karagdagan sa sakyan.
01:57Humihingi rin ang ombudsman ng confidential funds na nagkakahalaga ng 51 million pesos.
02:03I think we're more aggressive in pursuing investigations, Your Honor,
02:08and purchasing information and other things that requires confidential funds to be utilized, Your Honor.
02:15We want to be able to establish safe quarters for witnesses, and sometimes our marshals on themselves.
02:26And also, we have made a move that probably will be surprising to all,
02:32because I have decided, we have decided to hire an assistant ombudsman for the barm.
02:39For the barm.
02:40And this of course entails a lot of risk and a lot of protection needed.
02:47Sabi ni Senat Finance Committee Chairman J.B. Eresito, pag-aaralan ng Senado kung pwedeng dagdagan ang confidential fund ng
02:55ombudsman.
02:56Probably we can add a little.
02:57Ito lang yung ombudsman na very aggressive ngayon, na talagang seryoso sa pagsugpo ng mga grafters.
03:05Mr. Chairman, that's even a drop in the bucket kung tutusin for what the work the ombudsman is doing.
03:11As a matter of fact, there was one office, one office of government that had 125 million five times.
03:20Hindi pinangalanan ni Sen. Tito Sotong opisina, pero isa sa mga tinalakay sa impeachment trial,
03:27ang 125 million pesos confidential fund di Vice President Sara Duterte noong 2022 at 2023,
03:35na pag-usapan din sa budget hearing ang status ng mga kaso kaugnay sa flood control scandal.
03:42There are now, Your Honor, there are now 35 cases before the courts in the Sandigan Bayan and in the
03:48RTC.
03:49We are now conducting 166 cases for preliminary investigation, which of course will lead to filing.
03:57Tiniyak naman ni Rimulya na masasampahan din ang kaso si dating House Speaker Martin Romualdez.
04:02Relax lang kayo, andyan na yan. Para maganda ang pagkakagawa ng kaso.
04:09Hindi kasi pwedeng mag-file dyan ang mahinang kaso.
04:12Sobrang daming pera niyan, sobrang daming pera, sobrang daming abogado.
04:17Kita nyo naman ang kanilang payroll sa lahat. Lahat nasa payroll na eh.
04:21Nauna ng itinanggi ni Romualdez ang mga aligasyon ng korupsyon laban sa kanya.
04:26Inaprobahan ang Senate Committee on Finance ang 7.2 billion pesos na budget ng ombudsman.
04:33Sandra Aguinaldo, GMA News.
