The Marcos greed continues
I have written about the dictator Marcos – his
unscrupulousness, his wickedness, and his being the precursor of what is
evil among our politicians cum public servants today.
Now I am writing about Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong”
Marcos Jr’s greed – his involvement in the multi-billion PDAF scam and
looking at both of them I can’t help but entertain thoughts that,
indeed, ‘The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” Truly, he is a chip off the old block.
I am sure all Filipinos were hoping that with their
return and reentry into politics that the Marcoses would have learned
their lesson for being exiled, have made amends of their mistakes, and
felt the need to serve the people in a selfless and incorruptible manner
this time around.
Alas, our collective hopes (collective stupidity?)
for them to be magnanimous has come to naught as once again the people
have become victims of the son’s greed.
Note that Bongbong
Marcos was earlier reported by the COA to have endorsed in 2012 P100
million of his pork-barrel allocation to Napoles’ dummy NGOs—Ginintuang
Alay sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (P5 million), Agricultura para sa
Magbubukid Foundation Inc. (P25 million), Kaupdanan para sa Mangunguma
Foundation Inc. (P25 million) and Agri and Economic Program for Farmers
Foundation Inc. (P45 million) through the National Livelihood
Development Corp.
Although Marcos has
been denying involvement in the PDAF scam, claiming that his signatures
have been forged in all of the transactions where his pork barrels were
said to have been channeled into, a recent report coming out in the
national paper, however, confirms otherwise.
It says that documents
have been obtained identifying a certain Catherine Mae “Maya” Santos as
the conduit between Marcos and detained businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles
in routing millions of pesos in government funds to bogus foundations
and ghost livelihood projects.
Santos originally
worked as a Senate staff officer of Sen. Loren Legarda and was able to
get appointed as an officer of the National Anti-Poverty Commission and
the Department of Agriculture during the second term of former President
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Santos has since moved
to the office of Marcos while continuing to provide support to Legarda
under the Aquino administration. Legarda admitted to knowing Santos but
claimed that “she is not my staff and is never authorized to handle any
PDAF.”
In 2011 after Santos
moved to the Senate office of Marcos as his officer in charge,
Masaganang Ani para sa Magsasaka Foundation Inc. (Mamfi) received P24.25
million for livelihood projects in Davao del Sur and Davao Oriental
supposedly endorsed by the senator.
The transaction was
submitted by Mamfi, one of the nongovernment organizations (NGOs)
controlled by Napoles, in a report to the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) and the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) that year,
according to an affidavit by Marina Sula, a former employee of the
businesswoman, submitted to the National Bureau of Investigation.
Sula and another
whistle-blower, Merlina Suñas, revealed in affidavits submitted to the
NBI that Santos was Napoles’ go-between in the offices of Marcos and
Sen. Loren Legarda.
The reason why I am
stating the salient points of the report here is to call attention on
the people that never should we trust a Marcos again to lead this
country.
Note that the namesake
son of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos has ambitions to run for the
presidency of this country sometime in the future.
Marcos Sr, during his
presidency, screwed us real good holding the nation hostage with his
military rule while plundering and leaving the nation rat poor.
Marcos Jr, even as a
senator, is starting to defraud the nation with the poor being
disadvantaged the most and showing no compunction.
We need the son to be president like we need a hole in our heads.
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