Imee slams DICT over rushed deadline for Konektadong Pinoy IRR Comments

Senator Imee Marcos on Wednesday criticized the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for setting an October 2 deadline for public comments on the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the newly enacted Konektadong Pinoy (KP) Act, calling the move “too soon, too fast, too furious.”

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Marcos, principal author of the law, warned that the DICT and the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) may be undermining the measure’s intent by allowing only 15 days from publication for stakeholders to submit feedback. She said the law’s transparency clause is self-executory and should not be weakened by restrictive IRR provisions.

“If they could not threaten the President into vetoing the bill, then their fallback is to bury booby traps into the IRR to keep small players out and protect the entrenched telcos. This must not be allowed,” Marcos said.