Aquino used agrarian reform funds as pork barrel

By Rigoberto D. Tiglao

Dec 08, 2013 9:20 pm

More and more, President Aquino seems to deserve the Pork Barrel King moniker.

It wasn’t just money from the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF)—the official pork-barrel kitty—and later from the Disbursement Acceleration Plan (DAP) that President Aquino used to bribe senators for their support, especially for the impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

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