“Mahiya Naman Kayo!” snugly fits what the Filipino people is telling President Bongbong Marcos and VP Sara Duterte this new year of 2026.
Actually, “Mahiya Naman Kayo!” is also addressed to the president’s cabinet secretaries, the senators and congressmen. The current crop of the country’s top public officials does not seem to be concerned about moving on to untangle the country’s political, economic and socio-cultural mess left by the bloody reign of the ICC jailbird, the civilian Rodrigo Roa Duterte, when he was a mayor and president in the past.
This “Bagong Pilipinas” administration has not been doing its job, as called for in the Constitution, that is, essentially “to build a just and humane society.”
“[T]he senators who were constitutionally mandated forthwith to serve as an impeachment court, archived the impeachment of VP Sara Duterte.
It appears the majority of the senators … chose to put aside the interest of justice, and preferred showing their political canine loyalty to the Dutertes.”
Waiting For The Promise
The people are still patiently, although many are now impatiently, waiting for the availability of the promised P20/kg of rice and affordable vegetables, fruits, fish and meat in the market. The laborers, farmers, fishermen and IPs are clamoring for a daily wage of P1200, to afford themselves a life of decency and dignity for themselves and their families. This cry for a decent wage is also an ardent wish for the millions of unemployed working-age Filipinos, that is, once they have been aided, if ever, by the Marcos-Duterte administration to have jobs or livelihoods.
Millions of Filipinos are homeless and/or landless, but this so-called “Bagong Pilipinas” administration has so far neglected them.
This leadership tandem somehow does not see the need for millions of Filipinos to be given opportunities to enjoy decent lives for themselves. This tandem has broken up. VP Sara Duterte chose to go on a warpath, publicly criticizing President Bongbong for his failings, as if she were not a part of the administration. The truth is she has been shameless and hypocritical with her sound bites. She failed to improve the country’s education system even a bit, when she served concurrently as secretary of the Department of Education (DepED).
On the contrary, she took advantage of her stint at the DepEd stealing the people’s money by spending in only 11 days P215 million, a part of her department’s budget.
Along with this sin against the people, VP Sara Duterte has been charged for violation of the Constitution, betrayal of public trust, and other crimes, meriting her impeachment, as called for by the House of Representatives.
Political Canine Loyalty
Unfortunately, the senators who were constitutionally mandated forthwith to serve as an impeachment court, archived the impeachment of VP Sara Duterte.
It appears the majority of the senators, led by SenatorChiz Escudero, chose to put aside the interest of justice, and preferred showing their political canine loyalty to the Dutertes.
The ICC jailbird Rodrigo’s record of about 30,000 EJKs has been practically adopted by the Bongbong-Sara administration. It is into EJKs, courtesy of the notorious NTF-ELCAC’s red-tagging and terrorist-tagging operations, as documented by the Human Rights defender KARAPATAN.
What is also “nakakahiya” about this Bongbong-Sara regime, sadly for the Filipino people, and perhaps forthe international community as well, is the clear lack of basic management guidelines and protocols to ensure that key government officials do their jobs responsibly with integrity, and to prevent any leeway for them to be corrupted.
Billions Of People’s Money
As the congressional investigations of the DPWH projects have shown, billions of the people’s money was stolen by senators, congressmen, cabinet officialsand private contractors of flood-control and other infrastructure projects nationwide.
As of January 2, 2026, no senator, congressman or cabinet official has been charged and jailed for corruption. Will the people enjoy a Happy New Year?
Or, per SOP, only the corrupt top leadership, and their crony-politicians?!