We will not count much in the Presidential promise that heads will roll in the colossal corruption behind the unaccountable 5,499 multi-billion pesos flood control projects. The involvement of so many congressmen and, who knows, members of the cabinet and Palace subalterns cannot be ignored that to subject them to guillotine will leave President BongBong Marcos with allies he can count with his left hand fingers. By first look the paper trail leads to politicians and crooks in the bureaucracy that are identified with Malacanang and the House of Representatives.
Will President Marcos have the gumption to confront these hungry detergents that nibble whatever is left in the government coffers? This is better answered after the applause at the venue of the SONA shall have died down.
Skepticism pervades more than the certainty Marcos meant what he said. Three years had elapsed yet graft and corruption merely became a pandemic in the government bureaucracy. The government treasury is dried and refilled only by transferring billions from Philhealth, Maharlika, government banks, PDIC and unloading tons of gold from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. Most of the money siphoned from the treasury were used to buy votes, in form of Ayudas and PDAP to sway the insatiable congressmen to impeach VP Sara Duterte who stands as the lone impediment for them to stay in power.
On the other hand, we would rather trust Sen. Rodante Marcoleta, the new Chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, to take up the Herculean task to bring suspects before the Committee and to answer questions and bare the anatomy of corruption that is pushing our country into limbo and the edge of despondency.
