Social Issues: Priority Development Assistance Fund Scam (PDAF)

       One of our social issues in our country is the corruption and the latest is the The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, or as we called as the Pork Barrel scam. We know that congress then uses this fund for government programs that can benefit the people.  But the fund was scamed, fhe scam was first exposed on July 12, 2013, by the mastermind the businesswoman Janet Lim Napoles. It was scamed over 10 Billion pesos using fake NGO as called the Non Government Official. The NGO'S has planed a project to give the fund to the farmers who is harvesting food for us but they will only scam the fund. Many people become angry on it as back from August 26, 2013, many people came to Luneta Park they are almost thousand in attendance in that protest against the pork barrel scheme dubbed the Million People March. After this,another one was happened that is a prayer vigil dubbed EDSA Tayo back from September 11 at the EDSA Shrine. Almost 500-700 people attended the vigil. It continues with more protests as two days later another protest was held at Luneta, where according to police estimates, about 3000 entered. The organizers stated that another rally dubbed would be scheduled for September 21, and another Million People March protest would be held in December.

        Some government officials was involved in the PDAF scam like Sen. Bong Revilla, Sen. Jinggoy Estrada and former senate president Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile and also his secretary Sec. Gigi Reyes who are all now in jail. Many people also reacted about this PDAF Scam and even they made a Million People March in Edsa just to abolish the PDAF. The money from this fund was paid by our parents. This event was unacceptable, because the money that our parents paying for these taxes was going to wrong people. We should know what`s the meaning of FAIR, because all peoples should be balanced from rich to poor.