Bayan Muna is pursuing a people’s initiative to forever ban the pork barrel in all its mutations—from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).
Kabataan Rep. Terry Ridon on Monday urged his peers to come clean and declare whether they received extra funds from President Aquino’s pork barrel, called the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), before, during and after the impeachment of then Chief Justice Renato Corona.
The Aquino administration used P6.5 billion from the little-known Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) before, during and after the impeachment trial of then Chief Justice Renato Corona to bend Congress to its will, two members of the House of Representatives told the Inquirer.
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada on Thursday confirmed receiving P100 million in project allocations in March 2012 during the impeachment trial of then Chief Justice Renato Corona, but denied knowing that it came from the Aquino administration’s questioned Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).
The P370 million that went to Senators Jinggoy Estrada, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Vicente Sotto III and Ramon Revilla Jr. in March 2012, at the height of the impeachment trial of then Chief Justice Renato Corona, was part of a stimulus fund of the Aquino administration, Malacañang said on Thursday.
The Department of Budget and Management released a total of P370 million from the Disbursement Acceleration Program to four senators—Jinggoy Estrada, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. and Vicente Sotto III—in the middle of the impeachment trial of then Chief Justice Renato Corona in 2012.
The controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is a mechanism designed by the Aquino administration in 2011 ostensibly to accelerate spending on projects and boost the country’s economic growth.
The oral arguments on the constitutionality of President Aquino’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) were concluded Tuesday at 4 p.m., with Chief Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno ordering all the parties to submit their memoranda within 20 days, after which the case shall be considered submitted for resolution.
A militant lawmaker has accused the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) of using P6.5 billion from Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) fund to augment the pork barrel funds of unidentified lawmakers three years ago.
The Aquino administration on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to dismiss petitions seeking to declare as unconstitutional the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)—a savings impounding mechanism purportedly created to pump prime the economy—saying the presidential pork barrel fund was being terminated.
The Supreme Court resumes Tuesday the oral arguments on the President’s controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).
The Supreme Court on Tuesday thumbed down a bid by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) to postpone the resumption of the oral arguments on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) on Jan. 28.
It was a tumultuous year marked by the pork barrel scandal, the siege by secessionist rebels and a devastating supertyphoon, but 2013 was also a breakout year for Filipinos who said “No” to corruption, former National Treasurer Leonor Briones said on Thursday.
