A Commission on Audit (COA) report confirming the gross misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) still has not convinced President Benigno Aquino 3rd to scrap the congressional pork barrel.

The COA last said over a hundred lawmakers, including administration allies, earmarked P6 billion of their PDAF to 82 questionable NGOs from 2007 to 2009.

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