A video posted on Facebook (FB) claims that the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Program received zero budget from 2023 to 2025. This is false.
Uploaded on March 2, the video used an audio clip from an oral argument in the Supreme Court on Feb. 25, where Associate Justice Amy Lazaro-Javier supposedly criticized the lack of budget for the AFP Modernization Program.
The video, however, showed a clip of House Speaker Martin Romualdez meeting with uniformed officials.
The text on the video read:
“BBM Gustong Kalabanin Ang China, pero ZERO BUDGET pala Sa ARM FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES (AFP) MODERNIZATION PROGRAM
DUTERTE GAA
2020 – 25 BILLION
2021 – 27 BILLION
2022 – 29+ BILLION
MARCOS GAA
2023 – ZERO
2024 – ZERO
2025??? “
Records from the Department of Budget Management show that the program received funding in those years.
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