Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
MANILA, Philippines—Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano is seeking a parallel audit of the Senate funds by the Commission on Audit with either a private or “independent people’s” audit.
Cayetano, in a press conference on Friday, said he would file on Monday a resolution calling for a parallel audit of the Senate funds.
Cayetano specifically wanted to find out how Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile liquidated the P250,000 that he gave each senator last December as well as the more than P500 million additional maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOEs) allotted for the Senate Secretariat in 2012.
Enrile, he said, should explain for instance how the P180 million travel allowance under the P500 million budget was spent by the Senate.