The hot issue the Philippines is facing today, famously
known as the Pork Barrel scam has shaken the Filipinos’ way of perceiving how
the government works with regards to handling their money. Janet Lim-Napoles has
become the name of the notorious genius known by the citizens behind this
scandalous event. However, that was only the name, and the person. The COA
report exposed a much wider and deeper view on the subject.
Based on what I’ve read, especially on the Audit
findings, it is obvious how some legislators and NGOs violated the requirements
for sending money to particular beneficiaries. The PDAF scam was shocking
enough, but this confirmation is even more shocking to even look at. In each
bulleted sentence, I was hoping to find one single word of morality, but
everything was about the anomalies in and within the government. It was
revealing, and incredibly mind-boggling for me as a student, and as a citizen
of this country.
The facts written therein are confirmation about how
drastically improper the PDAF was used by some legislators. To think that most
files, NGOs, letters, were not processed properly according to the rule of law,
and that the beneficiaries were not clear who were/are, was something very
disturbing. I also wondered why there were not much protests going on before,
since the COA report was from 2007-2009.
If these were disclosed a little earlier than this year,
I believe that the issue might have to be close to at least the conviction of
particular NGOs and the termination of guilty legislators.
This post is for academic purposes only.
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