Why some lawmakers can’t let go of pork

It comes as no surprise when Malacañang announced over the weekend that four senators had requested that millions of pesos from the government’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) be remitted to ghost non-government organizations known to have been set up by “businesswomen” Janet Lim Napoles.

This, after those same lawmakers presumably took part in the unbridled dispensing of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), better known as pork barrel.