Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales is confident that the prosecution of high profile personalities allegedly involved in the P10 billion Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam will not go to waste despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s comments that the case should be revisited.

“I don’t know what he means by revisited. To us, that’s vague. Still, we are not worried because everything that we did is in accordance with law,” Morales told reporters after presenting her office’s P2.29 billion proposed budget for 2017 before the House Appropriations panel.

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