Interior and Local Government Sec. Benjamin Abalos Jr. | File photo / Albert Calvelo of Senate PRIB TACLOBAN CITY — Interior Secretary Benhur Abalos stressed it is up to Congress to decide whether or not to allow local executives to receive the controversial confidential and intelligence fund (CIF). Abalos, who was in Tacloban on Monday, Oct. 2, to attend the Joint Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, said Congress may or may not refine the law governing the CIF. He, however, stressed that CIF is essential for the local governments to fight criminalities and even the continuing war on drugs.

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