MANILA - It was Congress that introduced the funding requirement included in the previous national budgets for the establishment of a museum for martial law victims, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) reiterated on Saturday. The latest statement came as the DBM clarified that a special provision (SP) for the planned memorial was initially not included when it submitted a National Expenditure Program (NEP) to Congress. The latter, however, would eventually make "adjustments" to include such a provision. "At the outset, we wish to clarify that the funding for the Martial Law Museum in the past few years is Congress-introduced," the DBM said in a press statement. "We note that when a project is not included in the National Expenditure Program but was made part of the General Appropriations Act (GAA), then the item is considered as a CICA (Congress-Introduced Changes/Adjustments)." The DBM already explained on Thursday that the SP for the planned me
National expenditure plans from 2017 to 2020 contained a special provision allotting trust receipts from the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses to build a museum dedicated to memorializing Martial Law s victims.
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Those who wish to learn more about his father’s Martial Law rule should turn to "newspapers then and what was reported [about that time]," Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said amid what he said was the proliferation of false information about his father’s dictatorship.