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00:00Special Dispersing Officer of the Office of the Vice President, Gina Acosta,
00:06took to the camera in her wheelchair.
00:09Vice President Sara Duterte's pressure reached 150 over 100.
00:14Acosta was taken to the Veterans Memorial Hospital, where the vice president followed.
00:19Before that, she was answering questions from congressmen
00:23about the P125 million that she cashed in on December 2022.
00:28She said that she cashed the check in the land bank show,
00:30put it in four traveling bags, and brought it to the OVP.
00:34When the money was cashed in,
00:41my head of agency informed me that I will release it to our security officer.
00:51So while on the way to the office,
00:55I called up the security officer, informing him that I cashed the check.
01:03Can you please mention the name of the security officer?
01:07It's Colonel Lachika.
01:09Colonel Lachika.
01:11Can you please enlighten the committee? Who is Colonel Lachika?
01:15He is the ground commander of our VPSPGs assigned to the Office of the Vice President.
01:24She said that she doesn't know who received the funds from Colonel Lachika,
01:29but she knows about the projects of the OVP under the CONFIFUNDS.
01:33I wish to direct your attention to the left bottom portion of this accomplishment report.
01:41It says prepared by Special Disbursing Officer Gina F. Acosta.
01:49Yes.
01:50Is this not contradictory to what you said, that Colonel Lachika is the next one?
01:56This is based on the final accomplishment report given by Sir Lachika.
02:04I'm just copying it.
02:06Special Disbursement Officer of the Department of Education, Edward Fajarda, also joined the call.
02:13He withdrew P37.5 million pesos three times in February 2023.
02:19The total amount of P112 million pesos of confidential funds was placed in duffel bags
02:25and brought to the DepEd to be deposited in a cashier.
02:28Fajarda also appointed a security officer who provides confidential funds.
02:33He is Colonel Dennis Nolasco, who was appointed by Vice President Duterte.
02:37I was informed by BP-SARA that a security officer is being designated.
02:44The instruction came from?
02:47From BP-SARA.
02:48Fajarda also doesn't know who gave the confidential funds to Nolasco.
02:53Based on the liquidation report of DepEd, DepEd gave confidential funds to seven places,
02:58including Makati, Dabao, Negros Oriental and Occidental.
03:01In the hearing of the committee, Colonel Dennis Nolasco was the first to give confidential funds to DepEd.
03:09He was accused of being suspicious in the question of how confidential funds were spent by the agency.
03:15The committee is calling for him for the next hearing.
03:18We asked the Vice President about this.
03:20This is the reason why we don't want to discuss confidential funds.
03:25That's why there's a law that prohibits the discussion of confidential funds.
03:31We will wait for Colonel Nolasco.
03:32The two other officials of OVP and DepEd were also asked,
03:36including Fajarda's wife, Atty. Sunshine Fajarda, who is part of the Strategic Management Office of the Vice President.
03:43This is Lemelor Toño, Assistant Chief of Staff and Chairperson of the Bids and Awards of OVP.
03:48Former DepEd Assistant Secretary Sunshine Fajarda was the one to answer the allegations of giving bribes to some officials of DepEd.
03:57Respectfully, I would want to answer them in a proper forum wherein I will be able to present my defenses based on the completeness of the said allegations, Mr. Chair.
04:06For GMA Integrated News, I am Joseph Morong, your witness.
04:12The work at that time, Mr. Chair, was to write technical letters.
04:20Assistant Chief of Staff of the Office of the Vice President, Lemuel Ortoño, was asked if he was aware of the acknowledgment receipt submitted by his office for liquidation.
04:30He said this when he was asked by the congressmen as to why the acknowledgment receipt was the same as the one used by the Chief of Staff, the Vice President, Atty. Zulaika Lopez.
04:42Edward Fajarda, a former DepEd Special Disbursing Officer, was asked about the spread of text messages
04:49in which he asked for the bank details of regional directors and division superintendents.
04:57Fajarda explained that this was ordered by Vice President Sara Duterte.
05:01Whenever the Vice President visits schools, he sees DepEd officials in need of financial assistance.
05:09The money came from the Vice President.
05:12My fellow countrymen, be the first to watch.
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