By InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5
MANILA, Philippines – The Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) on Friday accused the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee of playing blind to the controversies surrounding the Aquino administration’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which has been assailed not only as unconstitutional, but as an alleged tool for bribing lawmakers for the Executive’s political agenda.
The BMP claimed that members of the blue ribbon panel under the leadership of Senator Teofisto Guingona III are “playing blind, deaf and mute to the clamor of the people to reveal and investigate the DAP.” The labour group noted that the personalities involved in questioned DAP transactions belong to the ruling Liberal Party, including President Noynoy Aquino.
Congress precisely is “given oversight powers and the Blue Ribbon Committee’s mandate is to scrutinize government personalities, mechanisms and operations for the purpose of enacting laws that will address certain loopholes in the system,” said Gie Relova, Secretary-General of BMP in Metro Manila and Rizal.
“Everyone knows that Senator Guingona is a partymate of the President; even ordinary folks can easily view this prejudice”, favoring members of the Liberal Party in the Executive branch, Relova said.
Earlier this week, United Nationalist Alliance secretary general Rep. Toby Tiangco, assailed the continuing silence of Budget Secretary Florencio Abad over a clamor for his department to produce a simple, two-column report on where all the DAP funds – as supposed “savings” – were sourced, and where they were applied. The Supreme Court, which is hearing petitions to strike down DAP, also directed the DBM to submit such a report.
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