Stop corruption, your way

We’re all sick and tired of all the massive corruption going on in government with billions and trillions of pesos allegedly pocketed by unscrupulous government officials and conniving contractors.

- RAYMUND W. LO, MD, FPSP

This is something that’s hard to wrap our heads around, considering the sheer scale of thievery on a national basis.

But corruption exists on a lesser scale at all levels of government, which is what we can do something about on an individual basis. Simply put, corruption is a two-way affair. There has to be a corruptor and a corruptee. One cannot exist without the other.

As in what I wrote about in an earlier column (The Filipino psyche-boon or bane? Sept. 29, 2025), our bureaucracies are full of unqualified and corrupt people, who got their positions due to political patronage. They are out to get the most out of their sinecure, and the people be damned. We have to deal with these people on a regular basis, though we’d rather not. But let’s not play their game.