04/11/2025
🇵🇭 The Truth Behind the Flood: Plunder and Impunity
Ghost Projects? Substandard Construction? Trillions Siphoned? ZERO Piso of Justice?
While our kababayans (countrymen) waded through chest-deep waters, clinging to rooftops, mourning their losses, and starting over from mud and wreckage—where were the 'leaders'? Dry, wealthy, and shielded by layers of security, holding televised inquiries that lead nowhere.
This is the grim reality we must face: Typhoons are inevitable. But the massive scale of the disaster was entirely engineered by greed. It was not the water that destroyed communities; it was the Piso stolen from vital infrastructure funds.
Let us never forget this infuriating fact: Billions of pesos were allocated for flood control—dikes, pumping stations, and seawalls that existed only on paper, as 'ghost projects.' Lives were lost, homes were ruined, and yet, hanggang ngayon, wala pa ring nakukulong. (until now, no one has been jailed.) Zero accountability. Zero justice.
As the resilient Filipino spirit focuses on rebuilding what was lost, the corrupt are busy crafting their next lie and securing their next term. We refuse to be made to forget. The price of their luxury is our calamity.