From the rejoinder submitted by the terminated athletes and coaches of the PCKF dragon boat teams, I was able to calculate the amount of allowances that remains unaccounted for during the World Championship in Milan. The amount comes out as PhP267,718.75.
In the same rejoinder, I found the responses of PCKF President Jonne Go and canoe-kayak head coach Len Escollante. Ms. Go simply counters that the allowances are "subject to the discretion of the PCKF management how the budget provided by the PSC is to be spent ". Coach Len, on the other hand, says that the terminated athletes and coaches " are consumed by deception and trickery ", " hardcore liars ", " grossly insensitive ", "disrespectful of authorities ", " do not know the boundaries of their function " and " have a distorted mentality of their roles ".
It is very interesting and telling that Go and Escollante do not deny that they received a total amount of PhP499,200.00 from PSC. In fact, Ms. Go's statement that it is up to the PCKF on how the funds are to be spent is an admission that there was a discrepancy with what was approved and what the athletes and coaches received . The statement of Go offers merely a justification of what the athletes and coaches received. Nowhere in the rejoinder do Go and Escollante deny that the athletes and coaches only got PhP231,481.25 instead of the PSC-approved amount of Php499,200.00.
Thus the question remains. Where is the missing amount of Php267,718.75 ?
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