The Commission on Audit is moving in a twisted position and crooked direction.
Like the dinosaur that disappeared from the surface of this earth 63 billion years ago, the CoA may soon become extinct because of its adoption and institutionalization of the Citizen Participatory Audit and the expansion of the CPA as one of the initiatives in CoA’s Strategic Plan for 2016 to 2022.
On that day, the retired and senior state auditors emphatically stated that the yellow partisans in CoA were preparing for the 2022 elections. They were correct. They said that CoA Chairman Michael Aguinaldo utilized the awesome potential of the CPA as an instrument for winning national and local elections.
The recent appointment of former CoA Chair Michael Aguinaldo as head of the Competitive Commission has stirred a hornet’s nest among keen observers and even among the CoA rank and file.
They asked how he could be fair in making judgments as head of the Philippine Competition Commission when he allowed his wife to run for a political post in the 2022 elections during his incumbency as CoA chairperson. Aguinaldo has said volumes promoting the CPA.
Unwittingly, CoA chairman and Commissioner Jose Fabia committed, among other things, a culpable violation of the Constitution and betrayal of public trust for promoting the CPA which is unconstitutional. Where in the Philippine Constitution can you find a provision citing CPA as an audit strategy?
The allegation of Mr. Hyperman of CoA, Commissioner Rolando Pondoc, that the CPA strategy was made possible through CoA’s exclusive authority to establish the methods and techniques for its auditors as mandated by the Philippine Constitution is foul and will not hold water.
CoA senior auditors find Mr. Pondoc almost always on top of Mount Apo in Davao, with the clouds, finding a way to place CoA on top of the world. But no way, sir, through the citizen participatory audit, popularized and sponsored by the crying lady, Heidi Mendoza, who on bidding farewell to CoA, announced her intention to run for senator of the Philippines.
CPA Philippine-style is 20 percent CoA auditor, 40 percent civil society, 30 percent media, and 10 percent foreign dictation. This is the component of the citizen participatory audit that was announced by Mendoza in Washington, DC in April 2011, which was implemented by her tandem Grace Pulido Tan.
This was the formula of disaster that damaged globally the reputation and image of CoA, the Department of Budget and Management, the House of Representatives, and the Philippine Senate.
The country did not only suffer global shame, it lost at least two and a half trillion pesos, which may never be recovered because CoA itself does not know what and how to compute and how to recover it.
CoA, under Grace Pulido Tan and Heidi Mendoza, allowed itself to be used.
Watch out for this “publicist demagoguery” which is strictly prohibited by no less than the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institution.
“CPA aims to uphold the people’s primordial right to a clean government and the prudent utilization of public resources founded on the premise that public accountability can prosper only with a vigilant and involved citizenry.”
This propaganda is similar to the call of Hitler after the first World War, the aftermath of which caused the German people so much shame and the greatest loss in their material wealth. Hitler rallied the German people to take revenge and win back what they lost. As a result, Germany was destroyed. A lesson for humanity to learn, under the Bible and Man’s Penal Code: Revenge, founded on pride, goes before destruction.
The citizen participatory audit, Philippine style, is a crazy audit system that could only come from a crazy mind. The dinosaurs at the height of their folly became so crazy to believe that they were bigger than the ocean, that as of today not one of them survived for us to see at least one of them alive.