I was mad as hell after seeing the Department of Public Works and Highways doing an asphalt overlay at 11 p.m. on the well-paved Sucat Road (Dr. A. Santos Avenue) in Parañaque City. For a project the DPWH calls “Asset Preservation,” it is spending P50 million. Such brazen temerity! Fifty million pesos could have provided housing for 500 poor Filipino families.
The same thing happened in Dungon Bridge in Iloilo City, last year. It was a good functioning two-lane bridge destroyed by the DPWH only to be replaced by a four-lane, P50-million bridge on a two-lane national road.
Between these two projects, some P100 million was wasted due to corrupt thinking and practice—P100 million which could have housed 1,000 poor Filipino families. Well, this is daan na matuwid at work, reaching unprecedented heights of hypocrisy! Mabuhay si P-Noy!
Panahon na para magalit!
—RICARDO RAMOS, rbrparadigm@gmail.com