Watch Out! Government’s retreat on DAP may just be a trick

BEFORE concluding that the fight over the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is over and won, because the solicitor general says it’s extinct, the public should be on guard that this seeming retreat could be just a trick, calculated to disarm the public’s implacable fury and determination to end DAP once and for all via a verdict by the Supreme Court.

At the high court’s hearing of arguments on the DAP last Tuesday, the Administration actually spoke through both sides of its mouth. On the one hand, Solicitor General Francis Jardeleza argued for the dismissal of the petition questioning the legality of the DAP on the grounds that the fund no longer exists, thereby rendering the petition as “moot and academic.”