{UAH} FW: [revpublications] CPP congratulates, cautions anti-pork barrel movement for legal victory
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FYI: LAND MARK RULING BY PHILIPPINES SUPREME COURT: LESSON FOR UGANDA.
Please find here a land-mark ruling by the Philippines Supreme Court which should give hope to the anti-coruption advocates in Uganda. The court, after so many years of campaigning by the masses of the people decided to strike down laws that gave the President personal control over millions of dollars, amounting to over 10% of the national budget which he used at his own discretion and without any proper guidelines. Euphemistically named "development funds", these monies, referred to by the Filipinos as "pork barrel funds", wrere used by various presidents for corrupt purposes. They used them for patronage, for buying votes or influencing the voting intentions of MPs in key parliamentary bills. The pork barrel is the same as the provision in the Ugandan Constitution that makes it possible for the President's Office to have its own budget and gives the president unlimited powers to give "donations" to whomsoever he wants. And we have all seen how Museveni has abused this power for purposes of patronage and the personal aggrandisement of himself and his close cronies and family members.
What this means is that the Supreme Court has stripped the Philippines President of the power of patrobnage because he can nolonger personally donate money for any purpose. He has to go through the institutional processes set up by parliament. In practice, it means each government department will be responsible for its own budget. It is not the role of the President to directly interfere with how government ministries use their allocated resources.
The Court goes even further by ordering the criminal prosecution of all people who have corruptly benefitted from the pork barrel funds.
It is a salutary lesson that Ugandans can learn from.
George Okello
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:57:15 +0800
Subject: [revpublications] CPP congratulates, cautions anti-pork barrel movement for legal victory
Communist Party of the Philippines
November 20, 2013
Please find here a land-mark ruling by the Philippines Supreme Court which should give hope to the anti-coruption advocates in Uganda. The court, after so many years of campaigning by the masses of the people decided to strike down laws that gave the President personal control over millions of dollars, amounting to over 10% of the national budget which he used at his own discretion and without any proper guidelines. Euphemistically named "development funds", these monies, referred to by the Filipinos as "pork barrel funds", wrere used by various presidents for corrupt purposes. They used them for patronage, for buying votes or influencing the voting intentions of MPs in key parliamentary bills. The pork barrel is the same as the provision in the Ugandan Constitution that makes it possible for the President's Office to have its own budget and gives the president unlimited powers to give "donations" to whomsoever he wants. And we have all seen how Museveni has abused this power for purposes of patronage and the personal aggrandisement of himself and his close cronies and family members.
What this means is that the Supreme Court has stripped the Philippines President of the power of patrobnage because he can nolonger personally donate money for any purpose. He has to go through the institutional processes set up by parliament. In practice, it means each government department will be responsible for its own budget. It is not the role of the President to directly interfere with how government ministries use their allocated resources.
The Court goes even further by ordering the criminal prosecution of all people who have corruptly benefitted from the pork barrel funds.
It is a salutary lesson that Ugandans can learn from.
George Okello
To: prwcnet@gmail.com
From: prwcnet@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 15:57:15 +0800
Subject: [revpublications] CPP congratulates, cautions anti-pork barrel movement for legal victory
CPP congratulates, cautions anti-pork barrel movement for legal victory
Communist Party of the Philippines
November 20, 2013
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today congratulated the ranks of the broad movement against the pork barrel as the Supreme Court announced its decision yesterday declaring the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) unconstitutional and ordering the criminal prosecution of everyone who benefited from its illegal use.
The Supreme Court also declared illegal the provisions granting the Philippine president discretionary powers over the Malampaya Fund and the President's Social Fund.
"The Filipino people have cause to celebrate with the decision of the Supreme Court striking down the pork barrel funds and the discretionary powers of the Philippine president, which have been among the most perfidious means for pocketing millions of pesos in kickbacks and promoting political patronage to the benefit of the ruling class clique," said the CPP.
"The Supreme Court decision should embolden the broad forces comprising the anti-pork barrel movement to strengthen their unity and push for the prosecution of everyone involved in the pork barrel scam," added the CPP.
"The Aquino regime, which has used the pork barrel funds to pursue its political and business agenda over the past three years should be among the principal targets of such prosecution," said the CPP.
"The CPP cautions the Filipino people against lowering their determination to push the struggle against the pork barrel. Yesterday's Supreme Court decision does not mark the end of bureaucratic corruption," pointed out the CPP.
"Corruption in the Philippines is intrinsic to the backward and rotten socio-economic system that is dominated by big landlords and big bourgeois comprador partners of foreign big monopoly capitalists," said the CPP. "Their economic power stems mainly from their ability to wield political power through patronage, the military and criminal violence."
"The Supreme Court decision is a political victory that acknowledges the strength of the people's movement that has long demanded an end to the system of corruption and political patronage," said the CPP.
"However, it is only a matter of time before the ruling classes reinvent the pork barrel, perhaps in ways more devious than before," added the CPP. "The people should persistently wage struggles against the corruption of the ruling classes until they put an end to the system that engenders it."
The Supreme Court also declared illegal the provisions granting the Philippine president discretionary powers over the Malampaya Fund and the President's Social Fund.
"The Filipino people have cause to celebrate with the decision of the Supreme Court striking down the pork barrel funds and the discretionary powers of the Philippine president, which have been among the most perfidious means for pocketing millions of pesos in kickbacks and promoting political patronage to the benefit of the ruling class clique," said the CPP.
"The Supreme Court decision should embolden the broad forces comprising the anti-pork barrel movement to strengthen their unity and push for the prosecution of everyone involved in the pork barrel scam," added the CPP.
"The Aquino regime, which has used the pork barrel funds to pursue its political and business agenda over the past three years should be among the principal targets of such prosecution," said the CPP.
"The CPP cautions the Filipino people against lowering their determination to push the struggle against the pork barrel. Yesterday's Supreme Court decision does not mark the end of bureaucratic corruption," pointed out the CPP.
"Corruption in the Philippines is intrinsic to the backward and rotten socio-economic system that is dominated by big landlords and big bourgeois comprador partners of foreign big monopoly capitalists," said the CPP. "Their economic power stems mainly from their ability to wield political power through patronage, the military and criminal violence."
"The Supreme Court decision is a political victory that acknowledges the strength of the people's movement that has long demanded an end to the system of corruption and political patronage," said the CPP.
"However, it is only a matter of time before the ruling classes reinvent the pork barrel, perhaps in ways more devious than before," added the CPP. "The people should persistently wage struggles against the corruption of the ruling classes until they put an end to the system that engenders it."
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