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Unrecognizing Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) issue and Freedom of Information (FOI) bill, President Benigno Aquino III delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City, on July 28, 2014.
Aquino highlights many of his administration’s achievements but did not mention the issue on the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) with many of the politicians are engaged. Senators have mixed feedbacks but they were uniting that the President was right when he did not mention about the troubles of the three imprisoned senators. The three senators namely, Juan Ponce Enrile, Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada, and Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr. have been detained at Camp Crame in Quezon City for accused plunder with the “pork barrel” scam. Senators Nancy Binay and Teofisto Guingona III said Aquino’s Sona was not the right venue to raise the issue of the three. “I was thinking kasi it’s already with the judiciary, the Sandiganbayan and you know, there’s separation of branches so let the Judiciary branch of government take care of that aspect already,” Guingona said. But thousands of protesters rallied along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City toward Batasan Pambansa on Monday afternoon. According to them, Aquino is the pork barrel king as they have illustrated "holDAPer" dummy which pertains to the President's DAP. Moreover, Aquino also failed to comprise the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill which aims to get rid of corruption in the government by providing the public greater access to government transactions and records. “He mentioned safe bills–I mean, Cabotage law? What is that? Safe bills will pass Congress but the FOI and the National Land Use Bills require a lot of discussion,” stated Ifugao Representative Teddy Baguilat Jr.
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