What is the connection between farm-to-market roads and the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic?
“We noticed releases under Bayanihan 2 focused on farm-to-market roads worth P5 billion. Can you explain the connection between these farm-to-market road releases and the government’s COVID response? Parang hindi ko ma-connect ,” he said in his interpellation of the DA’s budget. Senator Cynthia Villar, who was sponsoring the DA’s budget, replied it could be for improving logistics – triggering laughter inside the Senate session hall. Villar is the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture, Food and Agrarian Reform committee.
Also, Lacson questioned the 17-percent increase in the DA’s funding for Agri-Machinery, Equipment, Facilities, and Infrastructure program from P11.3 billion to P13.32 billion – with the bulk of the increase for farm-to-market roads from P4.98 billion under the National Expenditure Program to P6.95 billion under the House version of the budget bill.
Eh halos wala namang Covid19 sa mga bukid, kaysa mamatay sila sa gutom kung walang paraang mahatid ang mga ani nila. Explain that to the people affected, Huwag sa media o sa opisina nyo.
Lacson wants people to go hungry.