Public works officials should resign

The admonition "mahiya naman kayo" should primarily be addressed to the officials in the DPWH and COA and other related agencies which have control, supervision, coordination, and oversight functions over the flood control projects and other public works.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

"Mahiya naman kayo" should shame the scoundrels, rascals, and scalawags in flood control and other government projects.

If the president is dead serious in his fight against corruption in government, he should not only focus on contractors, who are only pawns being used by the most corrupt predators among crocodiles and alligators. The elephants in the rooms are the congressmen and perhaps the senators too who inserted the pork barrel during the small committee secret meetings, and the DPWH officials who are alleged to be the true kingpins and brains of public corruption.

If the DPWH secretary had a little delicadeza, he should have tendered his resignation after the SONA, and if not, after the president's field inspection in Bulacan. They could not hold a candle to the clean record of former secretary Bebs Singson, who was the cleanest DPWH top honcho. PBBM himself had to do the actual onsite inspections when the top echelons of the DPWH leadership, from the secretaries, the coterie of undersecretaries and assistant secretaries, bureau directors, and regional directors, could have spared the head of state from performing mundane tasks of inspections, which they are mandated to perform.