Romualdez says no such thing as ‘functional control’ over budget

MANILA, Philippines — The camp of former House of Representatives Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez has maintained that there is no such thing as a “functional control” over the entire budget process, noting that no single person has discretion over every step of appropriations. In a statement on Friday, Romualdez’s spokesperson lawyer Elaine Atienza said that they take exception to recent pronouncements that he was the mastermind of the flood control scam because he , as Speaker of the House during the 19th Congress, supposedly had “functional control.” It was Assistant Ombudsman Jose Dominic Clavano IV who made this statement about Romualdez, during a […]... Keep on reading: Romualdez says no such thing as ‘functional control’ over budget

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