“We still have to see the corrupt and guilty end up in jail”
WITH all the investigations going on of the rampant corruption in the Department of Public Works and Highways, it will be the height of insult to the people if the Sandiganbayan, which will try these cases against rampant corruption, will not have a decision within six to eight months after they are filed.
Even if the investigation now by the Independent Commission for Infrastructure is made public, the people will not know who are those responsible for stealing from the people trillions of pesos.
Most of them are public officials of the DPWH in connivance with contractors, in their insatiable greed stealing trillions of pesos of the people’s money.
These investigations have made the people lose their faith in the government, so much so that the stability of the government is at stake.
This can be seen in all the protest actions of people, including students from different colleges and universities against the rampant corruption in government.
My gulay, there are many instances wherein the people were sadly disappointed with the result of the investigation of public officials.
I am not talking here of the possibility of People Power, rather I am talking here of the people’s faith and confidence in government.
I have been a journalist for more than seven decades and I have never seen to what extent graft and corruption has gone until now.
I know how corrupt, for instance, the Bureau of Customs was because I covered it years ago in connection with smuggling.
There was even a time when people were smuggling illegal drugs in the country and nothing much was done about it.
Sure, there would be investigations but have you ever seen the real culprits or the masterminds behind the smuggling of illegal drugs go to jail?
In the meantime, I would like to ask the Senate: What is happening to the impeachment case of Vice President Sara Duterte, whose confidential funds were given to fictitious persons?
If the second highest official of the land, VP Sara Duterte, gets away with what she did and will not be impeached, I am afraid the people will totally lose faith in the government.
I hate to see a government like ours become unstable with all the people losing faith in it in connection with rampant corruption.
We all know, Santa Banana, that many times only the rich and the powerful are acquitted and people like us are left with nothing.
With all this happening in the government, the people are losing faith in the government.
Talk about what will happen now with the ICI livestreaming and being transparent in its investigation.
Will this result in the conviction of corrupt people in government?
Another question: With the people losing their faith and trust in government who will lose in the long run if not us, the people?
We still have to see the corrupt and guilty end up in jail.
The Sandiganbayan has shown that they will have convictions of those found guilty of rampant graft and corruption within six to eight months.
Let’s hope so, and hopefully with the will of God, the people will end up finally trusting our government.
I predict convictions and tose convicted will rot in jail, but we all know with the kind of snail-paced justice we have, the true and real corrupt people in the government will not all go to jail.
As a lawyer I still have faith and hope our justice system will prevail in the end.
