By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld Since the massive, largely spontaneous public expression of outrage last August 26 in light of the P10-billion Napoles pork barrel scam, subsequent events and revelations have only validated and underscored the call for the abolition of all forms of “pork” or lump sum, discretionary funds including what is now…
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The plot thickens
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld The Aquino regime’s gross abuse and misuse of public funds through the now discredited and derided pork barrel system is becoming fully unmasked what with the disclosure of how Malacañang has been illegally juggling and misappropriating hundreds of billions of pesos via the Department of Budget and Management-concocted Disbursement…
State workers slam creation of new pork barrel fund
Priority Development Assistance Fund, Special Purpose Fund, President’s Social Fund, and now DAP, stop mocking us, they’re all pork and they reek of the same stench of corruption.” – Ferdinand Gaite, Courage
The fat thickens: from a scandal to a mess
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Bulatlat Perspective What started out as a corruption scandal allegedly involving five senators and 23 legislators from the House of Representatives, together with Janet Lim-Napoles, covering the period 2007-2009, has now erupted into a full-blown mess affecting the Aquino government. First came the Commission on Audit report, which revealed irregularities in the…