UP tops lists of schools withunsettled advances - Malaya 09.29.2006

THE "favorite" university of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez is the runaway winner in the list of state universities and colleges (SUCs) with unsettled cash advances.
UP’s unliquidated advances in December 2005 stood at P16.7 million, documents presented to the ongoing budget hearings at the Senate showed.

UP last week landed on news pages after militant students in Diliman campus protesting political killings pelted Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon with eggs and mud.
The action drew strong rebuke from Malacañang and conservative groups that called the UP students undeserving of the subsidy they receive from taxpayers.

Gonzalez earlier called the UP a breeding ground for destabilizers and nude runners.
Palawan State University is a distant second with P7.4 million in unliquidated cash advances followed by Cotabato City Polytechnic State College with P7.3 million.

Landing in the top 10 list are Ramon Magsaysay Polytechnic College, P5.8 million: University of Eastern Philippines, P4.5million; Cagayan State University, P4.3 million: Isabela State University, P3.7 million; Panay State Polytechnic College, P3.4 million: MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology, P3.3 million, and Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State College, P3 million.

The Commission on Higher Education has unsettled advances of P6.9 million while the Department of Education has P385 million.

COA, which was the source of the documents, is also a poor role model with unliquidated advances of P9.26 million.

Sen. Franklin Drilon, Senate finance chairman, bared early this week that the national government has P17 billion in unliquidated cash advances. – Dennis Gadil