IT IS ONLY proper and makes a lot of sense, that robbers and thieves, caught stealing, should be jailed and made to return the money or goods they have stolen. That is simple justice – hold accountable the contractor Discaya couple and all the contractors found cheating the government with kickbacks and sub-standard or ghost infrastructure works.
More importantly, all the solons, who were mandated to hold their government official positions as a public trust, but also robbed, or plundered the people’s money, in cahoots with the contractors, must be held accountable by being jailed and forced to return all the money they have stolen.
IF FOUND GUILTY
Thus, if Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Joel Villanueva, as named by DPWH’s Engineer Brice Hernandez, are found guilty of having received kickbacks from the contractor-couple Discayas or from any of the contractors of government projects, they should be jailed and made to return the people’s money.
So also Rep. Elizaldy Co and Speaker Martin Romualdez, among others, if guilty of the same offense, as named by the Discaya couple, should likewise be held accountable, jailed and made to return the people’s money.
Of course, all those proven involved in such corrupt practices — the contractors, the DPWH employees, the COA personnel, and most especially the senators, congressmen and LGU officials – must be jailed and made to return the money they have stolen from the people.
COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY
Indeed, if such guilty persons are not held accountable for their crimes of stealing the people’s money, the government administration under President Bongbong Marcos and Vice President Sara Duterte, under the principle of command responsibility, will be most guilty.
Other public officials mandated to operationalize approved public works, undertaken by contractors, and found guilty of being involved in committing corruption, should also be jailed and made to return the people’s money they have stolen.
That such corrupt practices in the government’s DPWH have come to light with the open shameless display of wealth by the Discaya couple (as other ‘nepos’ have done) on TV, has fortunately brought out into the open the facts of how corrupt and rotten the current leadership of president Bongbong Marcos and VP Sara Duterte.
A REAL BOOBOO
The appointment of DPWH Sec. Manuel Bonoan by President Bongbong Marcos may have been a real booboo, but a heaven-sent, so to speak, as the corruptions that have plagued government institutions since decades back, actually an “open secret,” have exploded nationwide.
It has awakened the uncaring Filipinos — Church leaders, military/police officials, and ordinary citizens — about national political, economic and social issues that corruption in government institutions has deprived the Filipino people of honest-to-goodness governance that could have truly bring about genuine peace, justice and progress for the country, many years back.
Any independent commission that will honestly investigate the DPWH-SOLONS’ corruption issues, including the “Kill, Kill, Kill Policy” administration of former president Rodrigo Roa Duterte (now detained in an ICC cell in the Hague, Netherlands, awaiting trial for his crimes against humanity) should hopefully bring about a minimized corruption-laden government.
Of course, hopefully too, the alleged sins against the people of the Marcoses, including those of President Bongbong Marcos, may come to light in the near future, and accordingly held accountable as simple justice demands.
REVERBERATING CRY
“Marcos singilin, Duterte panagutin!” is in fact a reverberating cry in the streets today.
Needless to say, the pork barrel scams involving Napoles and those solons (like Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, and Ramon “Bong” Revilla, she specifically identified in her affidavit) should likewise be investigated and justice served.
Also, an urgent people’s call almost daily, “Impeach VP Sara Duterte!”