Evil Deeds

Anomalies at the rebuilding sites of Yolanda-hit regions, including the allegations of overpricing of bunkhouses is inhuman and such level of corruption under Noynoy is the most despicable act a government and its officials are capable of against a suffering lot.

Prior to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) overpricing allegations, the Department of Social Welfare and Development was also under fire for switching of relief goods and hoarding. The Tribune found proof of the hoarding of donated foreign goods that the DSWD has been tightly guarding at the Ninoy Aquino sports stadium in Manila.

Social Welfare Secretary Dinky Soliman brushed off the allegations saying that the overflowing sports stadium is only a transit point for the donations which are then repacked and sent to the calamity-stricken areas.

The way it was stacked up showed no indication the relief items were being readied for immediate distribution as most of them have signs of having sat in the stadium floor for sometime, including in most cases mosses and cobwebs.

The piles were removed from the stadium after The Tribune came up with an article about it and were likely transferred to a more inconspicuous storage area.

A separate item was published in a UK daily relating how donations from London are finding their way to retailers of imported goods in Makati.

No investigations were made and Noynoy was satisfied with Dinky’s alibi that the allegations were politically-motivated and if there is any switching of the foreign donations with local replacements, these were being done in the local government level preferably members of the political opposition.

The allegations on the overpriced bunkhouses are also being muddled or obfuscated by both the Palace and Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson who are trying to turn around the charges, branding these are a mere complaint on the size of the temporary shelters.

“There were some concerns that the rooms assigned were too cramped,” was presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda’s understatement of the year.

The real issue, however, was that the government-built structures did not follow international specifications and at the same time grossly overpriced these bunkhouses to allow a reported 30 to 35 percent commissions for Noynoy’s men.

The issue also goes beyond the usual corrupt government practices to which Filipinos have grown used accustomed.

Squeezing kickbacks out of the sparse assistance that the government of Noynoy provides the victims of the typhoon is ruthless and barbaric.

It is skimming money out of people who were left with nothing after the lives and properties were washed out by the freak typhoon.

Incensing is the fact that the kickbacks will line the pockets of Noynoy’s fat sows whose skins are so puffed up with the fruits of the money stolen from government.

The real losers are the typhoon victims who in Palace press statements are supposed to benefit from the government projects and foreign aid.

Even the assurance of rehab czar Ping Lacson cannot soothe fears that the typhoon assistance is being turned into another opportunity for political and financial gains for Noynoy and his opportunistic mob.

Noynoy and his mob have been harping about legislators allegedly misusing the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) while blatantly stealing from the victims of the typhoon.

Stealing from PDAF & DAP is a crime while robbing the victims of the typhoon Yolanda is the highest form of evil.

http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/editorial/evil-deeds

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