Carlos Zarate of Bayan Muna said debt relief, or the writing off of debts from international credit banks, can free government funds for rehabilitation.
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Calling her “Pork Barrel Queen” and “My Amnesia Girl”, netizens let out their anger in social media after Janet Napoles dodges questions in Thursday’s Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on her alleged involvement in the pork barrel scam.
“If you made a speech, you should do it right… the phrase “righteous path” is all wasted.. where is it now? Panic mode now?” asked ABS-CBN Northern Mindanao station manager Art Bonjoc
Activists in Davao staged a Halloween costume protest along San Pedro Street to air their call for the abolition of the President’s special funds, DAP and pork barrel funds. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
Activists in Davao staged a Halloween costume protest along San Pedro Street to air their call for the abolition of the President’s special funds, DAP and pork barrel funds. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)
By MEDEL V. HERNANI & ACE R. MORANDANTE DAVAO TODAY Davao City — Friday’s anti-pork protest activists drew 2,000 people…
With scandal fully blown into the open about the wastage of pork barrel, members organizations of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) said the government has been denied now of the alibi that it lacked the funds for the needs of the poor.
People’s initiatives, protests and public advocacy are three ways raised by Davao lawyers groups for the public to continue the anti-corruption and anti-pork campaigns launched by various groups all over the country.
If Noynoy wants to be remembered as a statesman rather than as a politician, his best judgment would be to grant the outstanding demand of the people. Which is: to abolish the DAP or the presidential pork barrel system. This is his most formidable defense against any probe or query relating to the legality or morality of the DAP. This is his best defense!
Zarate said that while the Constitution allows the President to realign savings based on the approved budget items, he said that the DAP “created new projects not allocated in the General Appropriations and therefore must be approved by Congress.”
