3. OPAPP fund mess – PGMA’s re-election bid 2004
(campaign)
Misuse of public funds
P329 million ($7.65 million) budget is part of the
government’s P1.9 billion ($46 million ) fund
allocation for the Pamana program for 2012
Tagged as counter-insurgency program
masquerading as a peace and development program
4. questioned the laxity in regulations governing
Pamana’s fund releases.
community-driven development approach in which
people are given control over development decisions
– on how they want to use the funds they receive.
This so-called CDD approach is also what’s being
used by the Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DSWD) in its implementation of the
CCT scheme and the Kapit Bisig Laban sa
Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery
of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS).
5. Under the Philippine Development Plan 2010-2016,
the peace process has two defined tracks. Track 1
entails the resumption of peace talks with the MILF
and the NDFP, and completion of the signed final
peace agreements with the Moro National Liberation
Front and the CPLA.
Track 2 is a “complementary track… to address the
causes of conflict” in conflict-affected areas through
the Pamana program.
6. CPLA and the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng
Manggagawa Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian
Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade
7. disbursed P31 million ($720 thousand) reportedly for socio-
economic development projects of the RPA-ABB. A supposed
peace pact between the government and the RPA-ABB called
for financing of such projects for rebel returnees.
the government was exposing its lack of sincerity in pursuing
peace by funding the RPA-ABB, which, he said, has long been
exposed as a criminal syndicate. RPA-ABB’s formation, its
members have been mercenaries and going into the service of
drug lords and political warlords.
“Since 1992, the RPA-ABB has been a bandit group that steals
from the masses. They entered into a bogus peace talks with
the Estrada regime in 2000 in a desperate attempt to maintain
funding and organizational survival. It’s primarily a pseudo-
revolutionary organization comprised mostly of thieves,”
8. peace agreement between the RPA-ABB and the
Estrada government. The agreement signed on
December 6, 2000 brokered by Danding Cojuangco
Present during the signing were then-executive
secretary and current senator Edgardo Angara,
Cojuangco and former RPA-ABB leader Arturo
Tabara