Post by Krizette Laureta Chu
So since @Akbayan Youth wants this:
Who paid for Risa Hontiveros’ Philhealth ads which ran on the lead up to her Senatorial candidacy?
If Philhealth, meaning our taxes, why would she use public funds to advertise about things that Philhealth can just post on its website or thru notices in newspapers? Why does she have to have her face plastered on buses and TV ads as if taking ownership of the programs as just one of its trustees?
If as Akbayan Youth claims, that it was her “friends and supporters from the private sector” who paid for that ad, when they were running DURING TIMES that weren’t official campaign season yet, (and they weren’t yet as Hontiveros was in PHILHEALTH for two years, 2014 and 2015, and 2016 was the election...) then it would be illegal. KAHIT PA CLINEAR YAN NG PHILHEALTH, hindi naman sila above the law.
3rd paragraph of Article 739 of the Civil Code STATES.
Art. 739. The following donations shall be void:
(1) Those made between persons who were guilty of adultery or concubinage at the time of the donation;
(2) Those made between persons found guilty of the same criminal offense, in consideration thereof;
(3) Those made to a public officer or his wife, descendants, and ascendants, by reason of his office.
SO BY VIRTUE OF NUMBER 3, IT IS ILLEGAL. As a public officer of Philhealth, she would BE GUILTY of accepting donations. Di ba AKBAYAN YOUTH?
If they insist, where are the deed of donation, payment of donors tax, and doc stamp tax, and covered by board res?
They will also need to give us the names of the donors for transparency to make sure there is no CONFLICT OF INTEREST among her donors. What if her donors were businessmen, doctors, pharma companies, that would stand to benefit from her goodwill as Philhealth “director” as she claims in the bus ad?
Since mahilig kayo magtanong re accountability, kami din, PATANONG AS TAXPAYERS.
So pili, AKBAYAN YOUTH, DEVIL OR THE DEEP BLUE SEA?
WAG PURO MEME KASI.
