BBM: Weeding out corruption in gov't like excising cancer

While his crackdown on corruption in flood control projects may have caused disruptions and sufferings, it can be likened to a major cancer surgery that brings pain before healing, according to President Marcos.

- By ALEXIS ROMERO

And while the country is in anguish over the multibillion-peso scandal and the political shockwaves it triggered, Marcos said such pain is needed for a system tainted with abuses and entitlement to change.

"I gave you lots of stories this year. You did not run out of bombshells, exposé, scandals. Well, you know, the truth of the matter is, it really has been a difficult time because I knew that what we were starting would really be disruptive,” the President said during a fellowship dinner with journalists covering Malacañang last Wednesday.

“But we are trying precisely to change the entire system. And when you have to excise a cancer out of such a complicated system, you need to do some very major surgery. And to do that, and when you do that, you will bleed. And that is what we had to go through,” he added.