SPEAKER Martin Romualdez and his allies are scrambling to defend and justify the P26-billion Ayuda Para sa Kapos Ang Kita Program (AKAP) as worthy of inclusion in the P6.33-trillion national government budget for this year.
They contend that public finance and budget experts are wrong in describing it as part of congressional "pork." Romualdez has declared that "ayuda is not charity; it is justice."
