DepEd challenges Pacquiao to name corrupt official in the agency

The Department of Education (DepEd) on Sunday, May 08, asked presidential candidate Sen. Manny Pacquiao to give the name of a corrupt official of the department whom he claims to be receiving kickbacks.

May kakilala pa ako diyan, hindi pumapayag na bumababa nang 40 percent ang mapunta sa kaniya,

Pacquiao said during an interview aired last Friday which was organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas.

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Pacquiao claimed he was aware of a DepEd official who received commissions from the agency's projects but did not provide any evidence and refused to name the official.

Hindi na ako magsabi... pero maniwala kayo sa akin na ipakulong ko lahat ng mga kawatan diyan. Wala akong pipiliin kahit ano'ng posisyon mo,

he said.

Following Pacquiao’s claim, the DepEd urged the senator to name the corrupt official.

It is a moral duty for the good senator, being a candidate for the highest office in the land, to name names and/ or identify, and not rely on generalities to put down the whole institution of the Department of Education,

the department said.

While there might still be bad eggs within the organization, the leadership of the Department has seen fit to charge these known implicated and remove those found guilty. It is not, therefore, the time to condemn the whole institution,

it added.

The DepEd also said that it is dangerous for Pacquiao to attack the integrity of the department, whose personnel would serve as poll workers in the May 9 elections and emphasized that to allege a wrongdoing without any facts or names to support the claim tantamount to false accusation.