SENATOR Pia Cayetano on Tuesday denied allotting P10 million from her supposed Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) to the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) and insisted that she is not even aware of the controversial disbursement program, further raising question on Malacañang’s true intent behind its creation.

It was DOST secretary Mario Montejo who claimed that Cayetano and former senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson have endorsed the agency as recipient of their DAP fund amounting to P40 billion on 2011.

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