Published January 11, 2021, 11:29 PM
Despite enjoying an allocation of nearly P6.7 billion, the Free Wi-FI Program assigned to the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) scored a dismal 15 percent accomplishment even as it was tainted with irregularities, the Commission on Audit (COA) has reported.
The 2019 COA annual audit report for DICT that was released late December, 2020 also noted that the DICT received P398 million from the Department of Science and Technology “based on invalid obligation”, adding that there were irregularities in the “disbursement of public funds” in connection with the release of P10 million in operating expenses that was taken from transferred DOST funds in 2015.