Newly appointed Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon on Tuesday announced he has set a timeline of 60 days to reorganize the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in order to cleanse it of corrupt officials, as directed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
“We are giving ourselves 60 days maximum to be able to see how best we can reorganize. And hopefully after 30 to 60 days, we will have an organization that we feel will be ready to take on these challenges and move forward,” Dizon said during the DPWH’s turnover ceremony.
“But it will be a difficult 60 days. I will not sugarcoat it… As any reorganization or any revolution is, it is always difficult. But again, I want to repeat, it is necessary,” he added.
The DPWH chief reiterated that reorganizing the department involves the difficult but necessary process of weeding out “bad eggs” among the competent majority.
“The vast majority of the people in DPWH are good people. They’re talented people. They’re honest people. They’re hardworking people. I have worked with some of them during the course of the past several days, and I can attest to that,” Dizon said.
“But in any organization, there are problematic members of that organization. There are bad eggs… The process of weeding out the bad and replacing them with the good is a process that any organization or all organizations have to go through at some point,” he added.
