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The Philippine Star
|September 23, 2025
Addressing the public fury over large-scale corruption calls for accountability and punishment, with no sacred cows.
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This entails spotting the anomalies, identifying the perpetrators, prosecuting and convicting them and ensuring that they suffer the consequences of grand-scale thievery of people's money.
Ongoing probes show how difficult the process can be. Yesterday, as the Independent Commission for Infrastructure opened its first full week of work, it denounced reports of "widespread destruction and tampering" of official documents in the Department of Public Works and Highways.
While ICI chair Andres Reyes Jr. did not name the culprit, Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon ordered the preventive suspension of the DPWH district engineer for Baguio City, Rene Zarate.
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