Re-electionist Senator Leila M. de Lima dispelled fake news stories peddled by quarters claiming that the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) will be discontinued if the incumbents are not elected.
De Lima, the principal author of Republic Act No. 11310 or the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) Institutionalization Act, maintained that the services of 4Ps will continue regardless of who wins in the upcoming polls.
She branded as “opportunists” people behind the spread of this fake news about 4Ps.
She also called as “desperate the people behind this fake news which brought worries to our poor countrymen,” she said.
In a Facebook post, Zena Bernardo, a development worker active in outreach programs and mother of Maginhawa Community Pantry Organizer Patreng Non, lamented the spread of fake news threatening to cut qualified beneficiaries of 4Ps services.
She added that this threatening report was prevalent in the provinces in Mindanao.
The DSWD, she said, should clarify this report.
RA 11310, which was signed last April 17, provides conditional cash grants to qualified indigent families for a maximum of seven years, to improve their health, nutrition, and the education of their children aged 0-18.
As the principal sponsor and author of the 4Ps Bill in the Senate, De Lima sought the invaluable inputs from various local government units and other stakeholders to ensure the measure’s successful signing into law.
The lady Senator from Bicol urged the public to be more vigilant against the purveyors of fake news who are taking advantage of the upcoming elections to achieve their selfish agenda