THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’s flood control corruption scandal has fueled widespread discontent and protest among Filipinos. Public funds meant for infrastructure, education, health and social services have gone to the pockets of public officials and their complicit contractors. What was meant to protect low-lying communities from flooding instead became an alleged scheme for massive kickbacks to lawmakers, Cabinet officials and even a Commission on Audit (COA) commissioner. The scale of corruption was, by far, unimaginable in the annals of Philippine history. At the center of this storm was the former Ako-Bicol party-list representative Zaldy Co, once...
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