"If indeed the release of PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund) since 2010 have been judicious and strictly regulated, why then are there documented releases to fake NGOs through the GOCCs (government owned and controlled corporation), amounting to more than P500 million?” Navotas Representative and UNA secretary general Toby Tiangco said.
Quoting from documents obtained from the Philippine Forest Corporation, National Agribusiness Corporation, Department of Agriculture and the Department of Environment of Natural Resources, Tiangco said that some P500 million PDAF was released to fake NGOs between 2010 and 2012.
The P500 million released by the Department of Budget and Management in the last three years was different and separate from the more than P1 billion given between 2010 and 2012 to foundations and corporations under businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles.
Tiangco also said that Abad cannot just claim innocence on the multi-billion peso releases to the 82 questionable NGOs identified by the Commission on Audit until 2012.
“Based on records, these 82 NGOs under question still continue to receive millions upon millions from DBM through the implementing agencies. What happened to the restrictions on the pork barrel releases the DBM has been saying—bakit marami pa ring nakakalusot since 2010?” he asked.
Meanwhile, Tiangco criticized the Aquino administration for its "very special treatment" to Napoles since she turned herself in on Thursday..“It’s not special treatment. It’s concierge service,” he said.
source: interaksyon.com
