FOI passage seen quashing public mistrust over PDAF mess

The passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill into law is needed to regain the people’s trust amid the outrage of the massive misuse of the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), an administration lawmaker said on Tuesday.

Rep. Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo of Camarines Sur province, the wife of the late Interior secretary Jesse Robredo, made the pronouncement a day after the Million People March in Luneta which called for the abolition of the PDAF—a policy that allows lawmakers to identify projects and the beneficiaries of their PDAF allocation in their respective district or sector (for party-list representatives).