Free for all

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend; the friend of my enemy is my enemy.” — Ancient proverb

- CITO BELTRAN

As expected, everything related to the DPWH ghost projects and corruption has turned into a free-for-all. As I wrote before, some individuals are not going to go quietly to prison or let themselves be thrown under the bus.

So now we can observe several people in Congress, the Senate, the executive body and DPWH making appearances and statements for or against each other and “the suspects and suspected” in the DPWH fund and ghost projects scam.

In the public’s eye, they are all guilty directly, complicit or by omission but we have no details or evidence to back us up. For that it is worth paying attention to what all the “players” are saying, connect the dots and you'll discover the connection and confirm what used to be rumors or social media banter.

You will also learn that those who claim to be or appear to be are not so. Party-list groups received P150 million a year from DPWH even though they have no physical jurisdiction or constituency, said a DPWH official.

Those on the right played along or tolerated the political chess moves of Malacañang to remove VP Sara and, as a result, money poured into congressional districts.

Those in the Left who aligned with Martin to oust Sara are now behaving as anti-Marcos, perhaps to remind PBBM that if Martin goes, Bongbong goes. Some are openly implicating President Bongbong Marcos in the passing of the flawed 2025 budget.