The budget for the CHR, ERC, and the NCIP have been restored.
The budget for the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), and the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) have been restored.
The three above-stated agencies, Commission on Human Rights (CHR), the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), and the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP), has been dubbed as the “1,000-Peso Club”.
This was after each of them has been allocated with a P1000 budget for the year 2018 by the House of the Representatives.
It was during the plenary deliberations on the previous week for the P3.767-trillion proposed national budget or the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) for next year.
According to a report from the Manila Bulletin, this was announced on Wednesday by House Appropriations Committee Chairman and Davao City Rep. Karlo Nograles (1st district).
The restoration was achieved when CHR Chair Jose Luis “Chito” Gascon, ERC Commissioner Geronimo Sta. Ana and NCIP Chair Leonor Oralde-Quintayo asked House Majority Leader Rodolfo Fariñas and Nograles’ help to be a bridge between them and Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez.
Nograles stated, “The Speaker basically told Chairman Gascon that we are not the enemy. The Duterte government is not the enemy. We are one with the CHR in the fight against all forms of human rights violation but they must start looking also at the violations committed by criminals and insurgents.”
And for the ERC and the NCIP, according to Nograles, Speaker Alvarez and Majority Leader Fariñas assured that they would “start taking all the necessary steps to fight graft and corruption and to carry out the full mandate of their offices.”
The dialogue is accordingly “very frank but cordial” yet, in the end, the speaker was “magnanimous” in deciding and gave the “green light” for the restoration of the budget.
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