“Will we be able to recover all the money that has been stolen by these corrupt people?”
WITH the number, almost a tsunami, of anomalies coming out committed by contractors in collaboration with members of the Department of Public Works and Highways, together with some public officials, anomalies that have amounted to several billions of pesos, we can undergo daily People Power rallies against them and send them to jail, but the problem still remains:
Can we recover all the money that they have stolen from the Filipino people?
The cases of contractors living in luxury and having for instance some 40 luxury vehicles in their possession is just a small example of how far anomalies have gone in the country.
As the headline of this column says, the greatest tragedy of all is: will we be able to recover all the money that has been stolen by these corrupt people?
It seems there are far more anomalies that have been committed which have yet to be uncovered by commissions created to investigate them.
Can we recover all the billions of pesos stolen from government projects by people who are so greedy and hungry for money?
That some contractors have been found to have luxury cars, mansions and other assets beyond our imagination is just a small piece of evidence against them.
Yes, Santa Banana, stolen by greedy and insatiable people who have made money their god.
This is the biggest tragedy of all. Santa Banana, even 1,000 classrooms built by the DWPH have been considered as substandard, endangering the lives and limbs of the young.
I have been advocating for the abolition of the death penalty in the country because I believe only God has the authority to end the lives of people, by His Will.
Now I am having second thoughts, whether to restore the death penalty to instill fear into the hearts of people who are stealing the money of the people.
Again, I cannot imagine how many “ghost” infrastructure projects have been built, endangering people’s lives and limbs.
Again I appeal to the people whose insatiable greed to commit corruption against the people whose money they are stealing.
Do they not know that they cannot take their wealth with them when they die, those luxury cars, those mansions, jet planes and helicopters.
I denounce the corruption in the DPWH and the many contractors whose bank accounts and assets have been frozen by the Anti-Money Laundering Council.
But foremost and above all things, how can we,the Filipino people, ever recover the money they have stolen?
That is the biggest problem of all, because the money that has been stolen can alleviate poverty in the country.
That is why I ask the question: Can the Filipino people regain the money that these corrupt government officials, contractors and many others involved in corruption have stolen?
I challenge the Independent Commission for Infrastructure, a special commission that has been organized by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to find out and give us the answer to this question.
