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House subpanel okays abolition of PCGG, OCGG

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FILE:  The House justice sub-committee on judicial reforms, chaired by Leyte Rep. Vicente Veloso, approved an unnumbered bill consolidating six measures, which seek to abolish the PCGG and the OGCC and transfer all its authorities and responsibilities to the OSG.(ROBINSON NIÑAL JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

FILE: The House justice sub-committee on judicial reforms, chaired by Leyte Rep. Vicente Veloso, approved an unnumbered bill consolidating six measures, which seek to abolish the PCGG and the OGCC and transfer all its authorities and responsibilities to the OSG.(ROBINSON NIÑAL JR./PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)

MANILA — A subpanel at the House of Representatives has approved a proposal that seeks to strengthen the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) while abolishing the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) and the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC).

The House justice sub-committee on judicial reforms, chaired by Leyte Rep. Vicente Veloso, approved an unnumbered bill consolidating six measures, which seek to abolish the PCGG and the OGCC and transfer all its authorities and responsibilities to the OSG.

The measure also seeks to strengthen the powers and functions of the OSG by increasing compensation, benefits and privileges of its employees.

The PCGG is focused on the recovery and preservation of ill-gotten wealth, while the OGCC is the principal law office of government-owned and controlled corporations.

The OSG, on the other hand, is the law office representing the government.

Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, one of the principal authors of the bill, cited the need to consolidate legal services into one office to achieve economy and eliminate overlapping functions.

“The consolidation of legal services in the OSG will specifically promote the wiser and more prudent use of public funds since this will do away with the practice of the OGCC of billing client GOCCs for legal services rendered,” Alvarez said.

The bill will be transmitted to the mother committee for its own set of deliberations. (PNA)

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