The disclosure the other day that the Commission on Audit (COA) itself received last year P143.7 million from President Aquino’s scandalous “Disbursement Acceleration Plan” (DAP) funds is a body blow to its credibility as nonpartisan, nonpolitical guardian of government funds.
Can COA claim that it is not partisan for this administration when the President in effect junked the budget for the agency that the 2012 Appropriations Law allotted, and gave it another P144 million from the DAP kitty, P5 million of which were spent to buy the commissioners brand-new cars?
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