In the last quarter of 2012, President Aquino directed the Governance Commission for GOCCs (GCG) to focus its evaluation on several GOCCs for possible abolition or privatization. Among those GOCCs ordered evaluated were the recently PDAF controversy linked GOCCs which involved fund releases under the previous administration from 2007 to 2009, namely: National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR), Zamboanga del Norte College Rubber Estates Corp. (ZREC), Technology Resources Center (TRC), National Livelihood Development Corp. (NLDC), and Philippine Forest Corporation (PFC). Based on 2012 unaudited reports, these GOCCs have a combined net worth of approximately P3.43 Billion.
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