MANILA - Former Chief Justice Reynato Puno has called for a People's Initiative to abolish all forms of pork barrel, including the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP).
Puno urged the convenors of the Million People March to convene a People’s Congress and “exercise for the first time the reserve power given to the sovereign people in 1989 by Republic Act 6735."
He said the power to enact laws is not exclusive to Congress but can be exercised directly by people anchored on the doctrine that "the people are the sovereign people."
"The people should unsheathe and use this power to make laws whenever their elected representatives default in the performance of their sacred duty to enact laws to promote the general interest, or worse, whenever they betray the public trust," he said.
He said it is obvious that Congress will no longer make a move.
"The One Million People March Movement should continue educating and elevating the awareness of the people about the evils of the PDAF, the DAP, etc, in our public plazas,” said Puno, who was once commended for his activist court.
The Million People March petition on Change.org to scrap all pork already has close to 90,000 signatures gathered on site and 15,000 gathered online.
“To maintain the momentum of the movement, its leaders should now focus in providing our people with a specific solution to the problem of our rotten pork barrel system by proposing a comprehensive law that will extirpate it or at the very least, checkmate its misuse and abuse,” Puno said.
Last September 21, Puno again showed his brand of activism by rallying members of the Methodist churches in the Philippines to join the multitudes seeking justice against the perpetrators of the pork scam.
Puno is the chairman of the Puno Memorial United Methodist Church’s administrative council.
“The [priority development assistance fund] Scam is the sad story repeated again and again in the history of governments. But the PDAF Scam is more than the story of how our people’s money was pocketed by some lowlifes among our legislators,” Puno had said during a gathering at the Good Samaritan Church in Quezon City.
He believes the scam could develop into the “worst to hit our government as trillions of pesos misused by our public officials can still be unearthed by the Commission on Audit.”
He described the pork as evil.
Ex-CJ Puno urges People's Initiative to abolish all pork | ABS-CBN News
naa man d.i ta gahum mobuhat balaod, mao ni atong gamiton aron mawagtang ning pork barrel.
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10-09-2013, 07:41 AM #1Junior Member
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Ex-CJ Puno urges People's Initiative to abolish all pork
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10-09-2013, 09:43 AM #2C.I.A.
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di mosugot ang mga Yellow ana nga initiative ni Reynato Puno kay appointed nang Gloria Arroyo ....
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10-09-2013, 09:49 AM #3C.I.A.
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"legislators have lost their moral authority to be the guardians of the people’s money.”
supportahan nato ning nga initiative ... abolished DAP and PDAF ....
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10-09-2013, 11:57 AM #4C.I.A.
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^it would be great...but hell, we're having a hard time getting it to the streets because of people nga way paki...kani pa?
as i remember it correctly on last night's news, needs to have at least 10% of the voting population...how's this possible?
needs to have at least 3% members on each of the LGUs...labaw pani...
what this country needs is someone with money who can afford a mass government purge...
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10-09-2013, 12:05 PM #5C.I.A.
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Kaya ra siguro na sir ... sa tinood init na kaau mga ulo sa tawo gud .. dili lang mo apil ug rally but deep inside naglagot na sila .. nindot ni kay mura ug Silent People Power ...
Originally Posted by kit_cebu
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10-09-2013, 12:10 PM #6C.I.A.
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^also, signatures need to be verified...
pastang lisura ana...
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10-09-2013, 12:23 PM #7
Let's just push them to abolish it. Signature campaign will not work.
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10-09-2013, 01:21 PM #8C.I.A.
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At least naa mga attempt to abolished anang Pork ... ug walay solution unsaon nalang ... mag ingon ani nalang hangtod sa hangtod kuraton atong mga buwis ....
Ang issue is not Pnoy or GMA ayaw nalang na ninyo apila ... ang Pork Barrel maoy issue nga e abolished ...
Sa ako gamay analysis kining mga Pro Pnoy mura ug mo ingon nalang nga Kang Pnoy ayaw lang sa e abolished sa Sunod na nga Admin, unya ug Team Pnoy maka daog Presidente padayon gihapon ang DAP ug PDAF ....
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10-09-2013, 01:59 PM #9C.I.A.
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i dont think walay paki ang mga tao sir. Originally Posted by kit_cebu
dili lang mo apil og rally ang uban ky ma uwaw na mn. taka2x mn gd og vote.
ang uban pud ky still blinded sa yeloow nga color. hahaiz...
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10-09-2013, 02:03 PM #10C.I.A.
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they can't abolish the pork they will just rename it. if they really want to abolish it then they might as well stop taking taxes from the people..
sakay sad nang mga epal magpaka hero sad..
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