the monitor

Get back what was stolen, and lock the door

The admission by Attorney General Dick Bayford that the outsourcing of government legal work was a poorly monitored free-for-all should shock every taxpayer.

That a single private law firm pocketed P6.5 million for just four cases, out of a total P11.1 million paid for 25 matters, reeks of a system that was not merely disorganised but open to abuse.

Bayford has taken a welcome first step by telling the Public Accounts Committee the truth. Now he must act decisively to ensure it never happens again and that any money lost to wrongdoing is recovered.

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