Of course, the DOJ is not qualified to conduct investigation on BS corrupt DAP. Look at the lalakero Leila in the photo above. She clapped, clapped, clapped to the point of having her head unwittingly tilted that expressed nothing but that she is BS sycophant. ++++ ‘DOJ not qualified to probe DAP cases’ By Edu Punay (The Philippine Star) | Updated July 12, 2014 - 12:00am philstar/headlines/2014/07/12/1345320/doj-not-qualified-probe-dap-cases MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DOJ) is not qualified to investigate possible crimes under the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), according to the petitioners in the Supreme Court (SC) decision last week that struck down President Aquino’s stimulus funds. Former Manila councilor Greco Belgica, head of the group Reform PH, slammed the move of DOJ under Secretary Leila de Lima to limit its investigation of DAP to five opposition senators whose funds reportedly went to bogus non-government organizations of suspected pork barrel fund scam operator Janet Lim-Napoles. “We’re talking about P149 billion in DAP funds spent in just two years, which have been declared illegal by the Supreme Court. Now why are they limiting the investigation only to five senators? That’s selective,” Belgica said. The DOJ, which also received P11 million in DAP funds, has started investigation on the reported P425 million in DAP funds allocated to five senators – Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Ramon Revilla Jr. and Vicente Sotto III – and which eventually went to the NGOs of Napoles. Belgica also cited the manner by which the DOJ investigated the pork barrel scam as basis for his statement. He explained the SC, in its decision last year voiding the pork barrel of lawmakers, ordered a probe against all who utilized the pork barrel from 1991 to present. Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1 But the DOJ filed cases only against three opposition senators – Enrile, Revilla and Estrada, he said. “That’s why we know the investigation is politically motivated and not a true pursuit of justice. It’s more of an escape from liability at the expense of the others,” said Belgica, who was also petitioner in the pork barrel fund case. Critics slammed Malacañang for justifying the DAP even after the Supreme Court had declared it unconstitutional. Lawmakers demanded that Budget Secretary Florencio Abad explain how the DAP funds were spent. Some of the lawmakers claimed they did not know that DAP existed, although they admitted receiving the funds. Even the Philippine National Police (PNP), it appears, became one of the casualties in the SC decision declaring the DAP unconstitutional. The PNP announced it might reduce the purchase of patrol jeeps due to budget constraints. “We are still checking the available funds. If we get lucky, we will still procure the original number (1,865) but if we don’t have enough funds, we will just buy 920 units,” said Superintendent Roel Obusan, head of the PNP’s Bids and Awards Committee. “It depends on the funds from the DBM,” he said. Protecting Abad Belgica also lamented the decision of President Aquino to reject the resignation of Secretary Abad, the architect of the unconstitutional DAP. He also rebutted pronouncements of presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda that Abad did not waste or steal DAP funds and that 91 percent of the DAP releases amounting to over P149 billion from October 2011 to September 2013 had been spent properly. “Only the courts can clear the accused of wrongdoings – not the Palace nor the President. These issues and charges should be resolved in the proper forum,” Belgica said. Belgica believes that such statement from Lacierda only proves that the Palace is “protecting the accused, perpetrators, implementers and creators of the DAP from investigation and possible criminal prosecution.” “These are attempts to make crimes impossible to punish in this nation. The Palace needs to explain nothing about the DAP because the SC already declared it unconstitutional. What it needs to do is to implement the decision of the Supreme Court and investigate and prosecute all DAP disbursements and crimes committed,” he explained. “No man is above the law – not the budget secretary nor the President,” he further stressed. Another DAP critic and anti-pork advocate, militant lawyer Argee Guevarra also criticized De Lima and called for her resignation. He cited as basis the “contemptuous sight” of De Lima vigorously applauding President Aquino’s non-acceptance of the resignation of Abad. Guevarra described it as “a tasteless act of disobedience to the Supreme Court decision, which De Lima should be upholding rather than insulting.” “De Lima purports herself to be at the legal forefront of the fight against the pork barrel scam. But the gusto with which she applauded the President’s rejection of the Abad resignation indicated her covert role as an accessory-after-the-fact with respect to the DAP scam,” he said in a statement. – With Cecille Suerte Felipe
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