President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has ordered his incoming Justice
Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II to spare no one in going after the
culprits in Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) and other scandals
in the Aquino administration , including President Benigno Aquino III
himself.
In an interview with ANC’s Karen Davila, Aguirre said: “We are going
to investigate the DAP. If the evidence warrants, we will be filing
cases. Duterte told me that charges should be filed no matter who gets
hurt. There should be no selective justice.” READ ALSO: DUTERTE TALKED TO GRECO BELGICA ON DAP: We will file cases.
The DAP was conceived as an economic stimulus fund using unused funds
from agencies to address a problem created by the government in the
first place: underspending. But instead of using the funds for projects
that would jumpstart the economy, the funds were used to bribe senators
to impeach former Chief Justice Renato Corona, to sway lawmakers to
vote for the administration’s pet bills, and reward loyal government
officials.
Budget Secretary Butch Abad released P144.38 billion in DAP funds
from 2011 to 2013. The Supreme Court found Abad’s pooling of savings and
re-aligning these to other projects including to projects not approved
in the budget as unconstitutional and ordered all agencies to return
their unused DAP allocations.
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