{"id":60493,"date":"2015-09-01T17:29:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T09:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60493"},"modified":"2015-09-01T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T09:29:59","slug":"malacanang-on-dap-probe-aquino-immune-from-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/01\/malacanang-on-dap-probe-aquino-immune-from-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaca\u00f1ang on DAP probe: Aquino immune from suit"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"President<\/a>
President Noynoy Aquino (second from right) and Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma (right)
(Photo from Aquino’s official Facebook page<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Amid the Office of the Ombudsman\u2019s investigation on the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the Malaca\u00f1ang noted that President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III remained immune from lawsuits.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Office of the Ombudsman is empowered by law to conduct such investigation\u2026 [But] we wish to point out the Constitutional principle that an incumbent President of the Philippines is immune from suit,\u201d Communications Secretary Herminio \u201cSonny\u201d Coloma Jr. said.<\/p>\n

The Malaca\u00f1ang\u2019s statement came after Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales disclosed that her office will proceed probing on Aquino and Budget Secretary Florencio \u201cButch\u201d Abad in the course of their investigation on the DAP.<\/p>\n

According to a Supreme Court (SC) resolution, certain provisions under the DAP were unconstitutional as inter-branch transfer of budgets was unlawful.<\/p>\n

\u2018Authors, proponents and implementors\u2019 of the program could then face \u2018criminal, civil and administrative\u2019 charges \u2018unless there were concrete findings of good faith in their favor by the proper tribunals.\u2019<\/p>\n

Aquino and Abad, for their part, repeatedly stated that they only had good faith in approving and implementing the DAP which was used to fund several economic projects and programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA \u2013 Amid the Office of the Ombudsman\u2019s investigation on the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP), the Malaca\u00f1ang noted that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":60497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,4377],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-60493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-public-probe","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}