QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 2678)
RA 2678 aimed to expand and reorganize the NBI to promote maximum efficiency and to fully implement its statutory functions, including the investigation of graft and corruption cases and other crimes and offenses.
It increases the composition of personnel and creates additional divisions and regional offices; it also requires that all divisions be adequately represented in each regional office, with each regional office headed by a regional director.
Each division must be headed by an assistant director, and every regional office must be placed under a regional director whose rank and pay are equal to that of an assistant director.
The present district offices shall hereafter be known as regional offices.
Appointments are limited to members of the Bar and/or public accountants who pass the competitive and physical examination, and after sufficient induction and training provided by the NBI.
No. The law provides that the present members of the Investigation Division shall be retained.
Only bona fide members of the Philippine Bar may be exclusively appointed to the positions of regional director as contemplated in the Act.
Promotion in the NBI shall be based only on merit.
Subject to the approval of the authorities concerned, the NBI may negotiate for the purchase of a lot and the construction of a permanent building in Quezon City or Manila.
The total cost shall not exceed one million pesos.
An additional appropriation of five million pesos is authorized out of any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
For salaries and wages; traveling and other expenses of personnel; purchases of necessary supplies, materials and equipment; acquisition of a lot and construction of a building; and other purposes related to carrying out the Act.
From then on, appropriations provided for in the Act should be carried in the annual General Appropriation Act, except for the amount used to purchase a lot and construct a building, which shall involve only one appropriation as provided in the Act.
Any Act or provisions of Acts inconsistent with RA 2678.
It takes effect upon its approval.
It sets eligibility requirements for appointments, requires competitive and physical examinations plus induction/training, mandates Bar membership for key leadership (regional director), and establishes merit-based promotion.