Meanwhile, another close ally of President Aquino is embroiled in a billion-peso corruption issue.ĭefense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin is being linked as the mastermind in the P1.2 billion helicopter deal purchased by the department from an American firm identified as Rice Aircraft Services Incorporated (RASI). He could even be booted out as chairman of the Senate finance committee. If Escudero will turn out to be one of the favored billion-peso senators, his dream of becoming a Vice President or perhaps even a president will vanish into thin air.
Osmeña even disclosed that some favored Senators are expected to be given P2 billion in pork barrel funds for their respective pet projects. The Senator from Cebu even disclosed that Malacañang assured Congress that they can still identify their projects worth as much as P200 million. Lacson’s recent pork barrel exposé in the budget was confirmed by Senator Serge Osmeña. He also refused the “bribe” of Malacañang in the form of DAP funds when he opted to vote for the conviction of Chief Justice Corona. In contrast, Lascon has never availed of his pork barrel allocations worth hundreds of millions of pesos in his 12-year stint in the Senate. No wonder, his ratings as a vice presidential candidate remains high. He even availed of the Development Acceleration Program (DAP) worth P50 million or P100 million after voting to convict former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona.īefore Lacson’s exposé, Escudero has been successful in projecting himself as a Senator whose integrity has not been tainted with corruption. He said the amount is expected to even go higher once they are done dissecting the entire contents of the budget.Įver since he became a Congressman and Senator, Escudero has always luxuriate on his pork barrel allocations worth millions of pesos for years. Lacson disclosed that his team were able to check the allocations of 11 out of the 21 major line agencies and have already unearthed P426 billion inserted in the budget. When confronted by Lacson about the illegal pork barrel insertions in the budget, Escudero was unable to explain how the 2015 national budget got riddled with billions of lump sum appropriations.
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Instead, what he probably did was to collude with Budget Secretary Florencio Abad on how to re-align these unused government savings and convert into pork barrel funds. Lacson has castigated Escudero for being silent about the existence of a P426 billion in pork barrel lump sum and discretionary funds inserted in the 2015 national budget in complete violation of a Supreme Court ruling.Īs chairman of the Senate finance committee, Escudero is in charge of ensuring that the national budget would pass all test of constitutionality and legality. Former Senator Panfilo Lacson did a good job of unmasking the true character of Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero.
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