Duterte Intelligence Budget

I have recently been following a story which I wish to highlight here. In the Philippines it is ordinary for the various offices to receive funding with which the office may use as they see fit. The first interesting fact that I became aware of was that the office of the president was asking for increased funds for it's intelligence and security services:
https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/27/19/palace-p15-billion-increase-in-dutertes-budget-necessary
This budget increase is significant with the value going from P6.7 billion to P8.2 billion. The increase in funds leads the office of the president to have a higher allocation of funds than even the national security forces or the military https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/238599-duterte-office-highest-confidential-intelligence-funds-proposed-2020-national-budget
In comparison, the previous administration kept a budget of around P500 million. The office of the solicitor general which has been accused of pursuing Duterte's enemies is the only office to receive a funding increase, which will be a 92% hike. Meanwhile the justice system will likely be receiving a funding decrease, and the funds it receives will be dwarfed by those given to the office of the president, sitting at only 10.23% of the confidential funds.

The use of the funds that are allocated are not disclosed to the public as they are supposedly used for "matters relating to national security and peace and order" In addition to this they are hard to audit by the government themselves due to their confidential nature. This is possibly an example of the government lying to itself, with the President able to receive and use funds that the other branches of the government has little control over. In regards to the story as a whole this is concerning as it is a concentration of funds and power under an already increasingly dictator-like leader. Or a leader who is following many of the steps one would follow to become a dictator.

This is only made worse by the fact that the funding increase only took 7 minutes to pass in the house panel. https://www.rappler.com/nation/239473-office-president-2020-budget-breezes-through-house-panel That time includes the prayer at the beginning of the session. No presentation even took place, they merely handed out copies of the increase to lawmakers. It is tradition for the funding increase to be fairly easy to pass in the house and to be scrutinised later, but the same briefing for the office of the vice president (someone who Duterte is not necessarily political allies with) took 24 minutes. The representative of the president did not answer questions from the media following the briefing.