MANILA, Philippines — “Road Board is dead,” even without a law abolishing it, Senate Minority Franklin Drilon said on Saturday. “No law is needed to abolish the Road Board. This can be done, he said, because during the time of then President Arroyo, Congress delegated the power to appropriate the road user’s tax to the Road Board, majority of whom are Cabinet members. “If the Road Board will not exercise that delegated authority, Congress cannot do anything,” Drilon said. Drilon said the Senate can also move to give the Road Board a zero budget next year.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 22, 2018 05:22 UTC