Presidential candidate Sen. Grace Poe seems to know everything particularly the figures she used during the presidential debates held in Cebu but according to Vera Files expose, the figures used by the senator don’t tally with the official records from various government sources.
According to the data gathered by Vera Files, Sen. Grace Poe cited some wrong information in the recently concluded presidential debate in Cebu. Some of the figures mentioned by Sen. Grace Poe were indeed far from reality, but due to some ignorance of most Filipinos, they would often believe that the senator was correct on her statement.
During the presidential debates, Sen. Grace Poe stated that the potential clean energy projects in Mindanao alone could reach 100,000 megawatts when in fact the target of the national government’s energy project in Mindanao is at 2,998.09 megawatts potential capacity by 2020, while the national renewable energy target is at 15,234.3 megawatts nationwide.
Vera Files also revealed that Sen. Grace Poe’s figures on Yolanda rehabilitation in which she stated that 154,000 housing units needed, 250 classrooms and about 40,000 hectares of coconut plantations needs to be planted with new coconut products. The figure given by Sen. Grace Poe don’t match with the figures of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA).
Although she cited NEDA’s data but the figures don’t coincide with the figures released by NEDA, in terms of her statement that 154,000 housing units needs to completed, NEDA’s record states that there are 79,000 are under construction and 119,000 are not yet started by the national government.
The only figures which is closed to the facts according to Vera Files is the population of Singapore which according to Sen. Poe is at 4 million people but based on the data from the Singapore Department of Statistics, Singapore has 3.9 million residents, of whom 3.375 million are Singapore citizens and the rest were permanent residents. The total population of Singapore, however, is 5.5 million.