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You are a litigant, an accused, or the complainant, or the lawyer, are you wondering why your case at the Sandiganbayan is moving slowly. Supposedly there are two thousand (2000) cases handled by only five(5) divisions in the Sandiganbayan.
The ombudsman (prosecutor) has only 88 prosecutors, he used to have 37.
It is good Congress gave the ombudsman an additional funding of 140 million pesos, so they can hire more lawyers and investigators.
You the public and the citizen can help a lot. You have the evidence of criminal activity, give the ombudsman leads to investigate and prosecute the cases.
We should put a bigger budget for the Ombudsman and the Sandiganbayan if we want to serve justice.
The President should bite the bullet and divert the needed funds from debt-servicing to these vital agencies.
She calls for revenue, likewise strengthen the budgetary support of the Customs and Internal Revenue, then she does not have to increase tax rates. Right now customs tariff is an average of 5.5 percent. But income tax rates will go up to 35 percent,
this will discourage investors. Look at the lower rates of neighboring countries.
Strengthen tax administration and lower the allocation for debt servicing, then justice will speed up, then our society will benefit.
Private lawyers can volunteer to help the ombudsman prosecute cases, write to the
ombudsman in quezon city with your resume.
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i agree with you, sir. not only do we need to put bigger budget into the Sandiganbayan, but also to the DOJ and SC as well. my father is a government prosecutor struggling to make ends meet because of the low salary and his principle of not bowing down to the ill practices of graft and corruption.
one way to improve the justice system and eradicate graft and corruption in the judiciary is to give the prosecutors, judges, and public lawyers their much needed pay raise, which is of course just commensurate to the hazardous and demanding nature of their work.
Posted by Corsarius II at May 22, 2005, 7:04 pm