“The Office of the Ombudsman issued a clarificatory statement on Sept. 13 that Ombudsman Samuel Martires had asked Congress to remove a special provision in the General Appropriations Act requiring the Commission on Audit to publish its Annual Audit Reports.”
What Vera Files found
During a House appropriations committee hearing on Sept. 11, Ombudsman Samuel Martires asked Congress to remove the requirement for the Commission on Audit to publish its Audit Observation Memorandum because it creates innuendoes that his office had been bribed to dismiss a case when the audit deficiency was only a non-submission of receipts. An AOM is a notice to a government agency’s accountable officer, informing him of deficiencies noted in the audit of the confidential and/or intelligenc...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Samuel Martires made this claim around 13 September 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 26 September 2023, 13 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Where the claim appeared
- ombudsman.gov.phhttps://www.ombudsman.gov.ph/clarificatory-statement-of-ombudsman-samuel-r-martires/
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.