Aquino confident, says he is ready to face any lawsuit over DAP

President Aquino is confident that he would not go to jail for the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) although three basic provisions were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. The President insisted that he did not break any law or abused government funds, unlike his two predecessors, he said, who faced corruption charges when they stepped down from office. “The fate that befell them – why should it befall me if I didn’t do that which they were either accused or convicted of?” he asked. The President affirmed that he is ready for any lawsuit that may be filed against him when he ends his six-year term at the end of the month. “I’ll wait na lang. If anybody decides to file, we are ready to respond,” he said during the “24Oras” television interview Wednesday night. Aquino insisted that the DAP. which diverted government savings to other projects not included in [...]