Abad handed out public funds with ‘complete abandon’ – Joker

Was Budget Secretary Florencio Abad trying to legitimize the distribution of additional allocation to some lawmakers in 2012 by secretly including the name of then-senator Joker Arroyo as among the recipients of monies from Malacañang that later turned out to be part of funds under the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)?

The question seemed to beg for an answer after the former lawmaker disclosed recently that Abad, without his knowledge, allocated P47 million in his name two years ago even without the approval of Congress.