Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Monday clarified that the P80 million worth of projects for each allied representative is allowed in the budget, refuting claims the pork barrel is back in the proposed P3.35 trillion appropriations act. READ: P80M list of projects not pork barrel—minority solons“I think I can say this in authority. I’m the oldest here, I’ve seen this budget before martial law. It’s been a practice legislators will go to the department secretaries and ask for the budget,” Diokno said. To make sure there’s no corruption, I will electronically tag every project so that we can monitor whether this project is being done or not,” Diokno said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 22, 2016 08:14 UTC