It’s just part of the huge amount they got back in 2011.
“The Commission on Audit (COA) has returned to the national treasury PHP65.1 million in unused allocation from the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP),” reports Jess Diaz in The Philippine Star.
According to COA Chairman Grace Pulido-Tan, the agency received PHP136.5 million in additional funds from Malacañang in 2011.
The funds were meant mostly for information technology (IT) equipment, including closed-circuit television cameras.
The report noted: “Tan revealed that they did not know that the funds came from DAP.”
In fact, Pulido-Tan said they only knew the money was from DAP when the conroversy heated up. The Supreme Court, if you remember, declared DAP as unconstitutional.
