Mar Roxas to Duterte: “Why are you so obsessed with me? 5 years na. Magtrabaho na lang kasi.”
Former Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas reacted to President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that the said agency under his term has an alleged unliquidated P7 billion worth of fund transfers.
According to the president, the interior department has an unliquidated 7 billion worth of fund transfers to various projects during the term of Mar Roxas as DILG secretary.
He noted that because his management failed to monitor the liquidations of fund transfers and the submission of the corresponding financial report, the receivables account accumulated a huge amount of 740 billion.
Mar Roxas- Duterte’s fellow presidential aspirant in the 2016 elections, reacted to the allegations of the incumbent president.
Roxas asked why is the president so obsessed with him.
He later told him to just do his job as the country’s highest leader.
“Why are you so obsessed with me? 5 years na. Magtrabaho na lang kasi,” he tweeted.
Aside from him, Duterte also slammed his number one critic, Senator Leila de Lima, and accused her of having millions of pesos in unliquidated cash advance when she was secretary of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Meanwhile, Malacañang said that Duterte will keep his anti-corruption promise as the President was certain to dismiss government officials whose corrupt activities had been documented.
It can be recalled that during the 2016 presidential campaign, the former Davao mayor It can be recalled that during the 2016 presidential campaign, the former Davao mayor promised to end corruption under his administration.
However, in his last State of the Nation Address, the country’s president said that the problem of graft and corruption is still persistent.
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