A final ruling by the Supreme Court ordering Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) in 2011 to pay P1.38 billion as just compensation and interest for fruit farms in Tagum City prompted a request for the release of P7.9 billion that Congress had approved, a Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) official said on Tuesday.
The Coalition of Filipino Consumers on Wednesday demanded that Interior Secretary Mar Roxas explain how the Philippine National Police spent the P3.2 billion it had received from the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which the Supreme Court has struck down.
He ain’t done yet. Showing no worry over violating the sub judice rule, President Aquino on Wednesday used the 150th birth anniversary celebration of Apolinario Mabini, one of the Philippine Revolution’s most brilliant lawyers, to turn the tables on the Supreme Court, which had declared his Disbursement Acceleration Program unconstitutional.
Some P800 million from the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), which the Supreme Court recently declared unconstitutional, was spent for construction, renovation and equipment upgrade in Malacañang.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) dispersed the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds to legislators in small doses for indigent patients, scholarships and livelihood programs—a distribution pattern eerily similar to the congressional pork barrel funds before these were outlawed by the Supreme Court.
