WITHOUT THE F

(WeThePeople)

 

|By Allan Manayao

 

According to Section 25 (5) Article VI of the 1987 Constitution:

No law shall be passed authorizing any transfer of appropriations; however, the President, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the heads of Constitutional Commissions may, by law, be authorized to augment any item in the general appropriations law for their respective offices from savings in other items of their respective appropriations.

 

The law had been the enormously talk big basis of the current administration in engineering the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).  Accordingly, requisite of augmentation of the law is only “by law” thus Budget Secretary undertake that the AC is the particular requirement of such. By giving priority to its statement that the “savings” from the article will just be used for 13 types of obligations.

 

Ironically, the Administrative Code Section 49(basis for DAP) was issued by Cory Aquino in 1987. Providing a mocking idea in the minds of the people of how the AC was ordained to be beneficial for her son. With which included therein the ambiguous ninth purpose “priority activities that will promote the economic well-being of the nation”.

 

The misconception about DAP is methodically baffling. Since its constitutionality was questioned and outcomes seemed to be equal footing with the “pork” thing. However, the motives such as aiming economic growth in light of the global slowdown and alleviating the damage from onslaught of recent calamities must prevail over corruption at all cost.

 

Simply put, any well-meaning government must prioritize allocations of budget for the benefit of majority, if not all, of its citizens. To do this, every measure must be taken to ensure that crocs do not get to partake of the mouth-watering public fund.

 

Give unto Caesar what is due Caesar and to Juan dela Cruz what is due to Juan dela Cruz.