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EDGEDAVAO
VOL. 6 ISSUE 100 • FRIDAY - SATURDAY, AUGUST 2-3, 2013
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GRAFITTI. With a giant grafitti of the image of Mayor Rodrigo Duterte on the backdrop, two women walk worry-free at a sidewalk along Matina in McArthur Highway yesterday. Lean Daval Jr.
Alcala: Twisted story
DA team preparing report on P89-million PDAF money By ANTONIO M. AJERO ama@edgedavao.net
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GRICULTURE Sec. Proceso Alcala yesterday said that the story about PDAF (Priority Development Assistance Fund) of congressmen coursed through the Department of Agriculture is “twisted.” Speaking to Davao newsmen on the sideline of the first day of the Mindanao Exporters Congress at the SMX Convention Center in Davao City, Alcala said his office has formed a team to make a complete report on the funds in question. The DA chief said that the report will be out in fairness to the congressmen, “kasi ang alam ko po, religiously ito ay dumaan sa tamang proceso (because as far as I know, this religiously undergoes the right process).”
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Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala, who was guest in yesterday’s Mindanao Exporters Congress at SMX Convention Center, took time explaining the socalled pork barrel scam.
DavNor solon not wary of DA-approved pork By NEILWIN JOSEPH L. BRAVO njb@edgedavao.net
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HE office of Davao del Norte second district congressman Anton F. Lagdameo Jr. said it is not aware of any particular transaction with the Department of Agriculture on projects relative to its pork
barrel fund. On Thursday, a Philippine Daily Inquirer report revealed that Rep. Lagdameo was one of eight members of the House of Representatives who have channeled a portion of their priority assistance development fund (PDAF) or loosely termed pork barrel fund to projects reportedly approved
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by the Department of Agriculture. Rep. Lagdameo was included in the P89.2 million reportedly released by Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala two years ago to a bogus agency allegedly owned by Janet Lim-Napoles. Lagdameo allegedly allocated P1 million of his pork for a DA-ap-
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