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Senators’ PDAF floods NCR, vote-rich provinces
IN THE last 23 months, a total of P5.78 billion of taxpayers’ money went to pork – or officially, the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) – to finance the pet projects…
By Malou Mangahas·July 19, 2012
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Pork, ‘daang matuwid’ don’t mix: One bidder, one PDAF project?
AUCTIONS for civil-works contractors to carry out “hard” or infrastructure-related pork-barrel projects must be lonely affairs. There is only one bidder for each of the competitive…
By Roel Landingin·July 19, 2012