Scrapping ‘pork’ won’t end corruption – bishop

SCRAPPING the “pork barrel” system is not enough to end the culture of corruption that has become so pervasive that it has taken root, according to Nueva Segovia Archbishop Ernesto Salgado.

In his pastoral statement titled “Stewardship and Christian Witness,” the archbishop said abolishing the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or “pork” of lawmakers and the discretionary fund of the President will not be enough to stamp out corruption and patronage politics in the government. What is needed, he noted, is a change of the political landscape and a “radical rethinking and reform of systems and procedures in government.”