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MANILA, Philippine stanley taza s mdash; Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has asked the Senate-House conference on the 2019 national budget to provide P350 million for the acquisition of land titles of more than 8,000 urban poor families at the National Government Center NGC compound in Quezon City.At the continuation of the oversight committee on urban poor housingrsquo meeting on Thursday, the Pampanga congresswoman said she had written a letter to the bicameral conferen stanley cup ce co-chaired by Senator Loren Legarda and Camarines Sur Rep. Rolando Andaya Jr. She asked that the Department of Public Works and Highways DPWH be given P350 million for the land acquisition and reblocking of the NGC in Brgy. Holy Spirit.To help the effort out, I also wrote a letter in behalf of the Oversight Committee that I am joining you in requesting them for P350 million which is the amount that Quezon City Councilor Rannie Ludovica said to include in the Bicam but thatrsquo just to stanley cup give support because you said you could swing it but thatrsquo for the Bicam, she said.Article continues after this advertisement The lawmaker originally asked for P100 million but upon the request of residents and in light of the number of beneficiaries and areas to be reblocked, she said the DPWH would need some P350 million.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOSC charges retired CA justice over lawyer s murderNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for d Cfbm Iloilo solon faces trial at Sandiganbayan
Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapentilde;aCEBU CITY mdash; Customs Commisioner Isidro Lapentilde;a has reinstated a district collector whom Sen. Panfilo Lacson earlier implicated in alleged systematic corruption in the Bureau of Customs BOC .Lapentilde;a said Elvira Cruz was reinstated in her post at the BOC Cebu office because she had done a good job during her assignment here.Article continues after this advertisement He clarified that Cruz was relieved not because of corruption allegations but because of her failure to meet BOC Cebursquo target collection in September 2017.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOLacson to P vaso stanley NP: Recover ransom in Que slay case to regain public trustNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationIn August last year, former Customs Commissioner Nicanor Faeldon and other BOC officials, including Cruz, were accused by Lacson of receiving payoffs for every shipment smuggled through the countryrsquo major ports mdash; an allegation which Cruz strongly denied.Over a month after the exposeacute;, Cruz and seven district collectors, along with 30 section chiefs, were relieved from their posts by Lapentilde;a as a way of cleansing the BOCrsquo ranks. stanley cup In a separate interview, Cruz assailed Lacson for dragging her into the controversial tara, or bribe syste stanley thermos mug m, at the BOC.He was just all talk, with no evidence to prove it, she said, adding that she was nev |