ILIGAN CITY — Harold Clavite, director general of the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) has just repeated his call for the resignation of Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson of the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). Clavite made the call after the House of Representatives deferred the approval of proposed 2019 budget of the PCCO and its line agencies, which include the PIA. As of this writing, the plenary debates on the PCOO budget is scheduled to resume on Tuesday, Oct. 2. Castro and Zarate demanded that Uson be present at the next hearing so that they could ask her questions pertaining to the operations of PCOO. ADVERTISEMENTPCOO is proposing a 2019 budget of P1.474 billion, which higher by P39.434 million allocated for this year.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 30, 2018 10:30 UTC