Noy’s FoI spares Congress from PDAF disclosure By Fernan J. Angeles 02/06/2012

Noy’s FoI spares Congress from PDAF disclosure

By Fernan J. Angeles 02/06/2012

The draft of the Palace version of the Freedom of Information (FoI) bill seems targeting on the Supreme Court (SC) and not on the congressmen.

This was so because nowhere in the draft bill that the congressmen should make public disclosure with regard to how much they would actually spend of their Priority Development Assistance Fund which is popularly referred to as pork barrel.

On the contrary, the SC, including other government agencies and institutions, should account all that it spent from its budget allocations by the Department of Budget and Management or else DBM would withhold their budgets..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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