I was able to catch the third installment of GMA Network’s Philippine Agenda series last night. Below is a portion of the episode which tackled the serious problem of political and bureaucratic corruption in the Philippines.
The clip below specifically tackles the issue of the severe over-pricing of lamp posts acquired for the ASEAN Summit in Cebu months ago. Individual lamp posts were acquired by the government at 200+ thousand pesos EACH, jacked up scandalously from an original 11 thousand a unit. It’s really maddening and frustrating. Even Mike Enriquez, amusingly at times, exhibited such frustrations on screen.
[Links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4]
Corruption is one of the main reasons why I cannot stomach it when government renders its institutions of social services (like public hospitals and state universities) inaccessible to many Filipinos through various exorbitant fees because of annual budget cuts and other such prescriptions of commercialization. It’s simply unfair for the people to shoulder the immense cost of the corruption of their politicians, most of whom cheat their way into government.
And just because it brushed up on the issue of scandalous over-pricing of government projects, below is a campaign clip of jailed senatorial candidate Antonio Trillanes, a clip you’ll probably never see on airwaves dominated by commercials of traditional politicians.
law student, leftist, national democratic, film school graduate, photography hobbyist
Those over priced lamp posts in Cebu was reported earlier by Max Limpag. Such dastardly corruption is simply appalling. If only killing corrupt officials weren’t a crime, I’d rid the country of them all in less than a year.
Hopefully, lots of registered voters watched the documentary.
are you supporting trillanes? bikoy?
I wasn’t able to watch the documentary, but I’m fully aware of the corruption in our country.
Nakaka-awa na talaga ang sitwasyon ng Pilipinas. Heck, I can’t even put it into words. *sigh*
Off topic: tiga-san ka sa Sta. Maria? Anyway, I’m from Bocaue and Marilao, both in Bulacan.
Off topic part 2: Taga San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan po.
I was not able to watch this episode, but my brother recounted something that is more troubling.
In the same episode, one group tried to organize a seminar in a certain community regarding corruption. No one came.
That is the problem.
^ If people came and learned a world on corruption, what could they have done to stop it?
OnT: Corruption is a built-in “feature” of any government. Kahit sa UP, yes, kahit mismo sa MassComm, nangyayari. I have heard so much about the doings of some people there (hint: former chair of one of the four departments) that made me wonder how they could stand teaching idealism to students while exercising corruption (like it’s a right) at its most horrific, at the comfort of their own cubicle.
Yung former Governor dito samin, yung isa bago yung nakaupo ngayon, sabi ng mga Professors ko hinold daw yung mga medicines doon sa General hospital na pinagdudutyhan ko. para daw sa medical mission nya slash campaign noong eleksyon (dati pa hindi ngayon) eh dahil nga nahold ng matagal, di nila nagamit yung mga gamot kaya lahat na expired at tinapon na lang.
UHmmm…
Sa kabilang banda,bumaba na yung halaga ng bigas ngayon. dati an hectare of rice would fetch 120 thou plus pesos ngayon 30 thou na lang. Kaya nga naghoahoarding yung mga magsasaka sa isabela.