08/10/2025
PPCRV STATEMENT ON RAMPANT CORRUPTION
“We Ask for Truth. We Ask for Justice.”
We are PPCRV. From the North to the South, from all walks of life, with different yet fervent faiths, we raise our almost half a million voices with one clarion united call. We ask for truth and we ask for justice.
The recent unfolding, which exposed unbridled and unmitigated corruption, profligate consumption, insensate greed, and moral bankruptcy by the government officials we entrusted with our vote and the government bureaucracy whose salaries we fund with our hard-earned taxes, unite our membership in disbelief and deep outrage.
We are outraged that the taxes which we paid for with our blood, sweat and tears, the very same taxes that could have been used to pay for food to put on the table, education for our children, medicine for our sick, shelter for our homeless, have instead been pocketed by politicians, government employees and contractors who condemn fellow Filipinos to suffering and even death when they built sub-standard and ghost flood control structures.
We are outraged that while so many of our fellow Filipinos wallow in poverty, the very same people who pocketed our taxes indulge in unmitigated, lavish and insensitive consumption, flaunting fleets of cars and prestige timepieces, further widening the unbridgeable divide between the elite rich and the needy poor.
We are outraged that the hands of justice seem blind to the culpability of others and incapable or unwilling to reach to the very highest echelons of our social and political hierarchies in identifying the individuals who chartered and protected this system of incalculable and incomprehensible corruption.
We are outraged that our children and their unborn children, without guilt and involvement, are already burdened with debts impossible to pay without any benefits to show for them.
We are outraged that the innate patience, the ingrained amiability and Christian forgiveness of the Filipino people are once more being depended upon to whitewash, forget and forgive yet again.
But for how long can we accept? How much more can we forgive? How many more acts of dishonesty and cheating can we turn a blind eye to?
Pope Francis himself said “the Lord promises rest and liberation to all the oppressed in the world, but He needs us to make his promise effective. He needs our eyes to see the needs of our brothers and sisters. He needs our hands to help. He needs our voice to denounce the injustices committed in silence, sometime complicit, of many.” Our faith demands action.
We demand that the wheels of justice be quick, thorough, and blind to personalities and positions and power bases.
We demand accountability and the incarceration of those who are guilty, proving that no one is above the law.
We demand that the funds pocketed by the guilty be returned and funneled into much needed poverty-alleviation, disaster amelioration, progressive education, and nutritional enrichment projects.
We demand transparency from our government and the leaders that we voted for. Eradicate shadow contracts and procedures and instigate published projects and procedures that we, the citizenry, can monitor.
We demand of our leaders the characteristics of the true Filipino: integrity, respect, helpfulness and service-orientation, industry, nationalism, discernment and above all, deep love for God which repudiates all things immoral and corrupt.
We must demand without reprieve so that true accountability and true justice can happen.
Let us not forget. And should complacency and acceptance creep in yet again in our history, remember with compassion those whose lives were swept away by floods which could have been avoided if money had been properly spent. Remember with compassion the Filipino, whose back bent with debt and poverty, can no longer look beyond the next desperate meal. Remember with compassion our children, whose education was sacrificed in the altar of greed. Remember the many voiceless, marginalized Filipinos who look to us to give their poverty a face, their suffering a voice and their lives dignity and true meaning.
To our countrymen, fellow Filipinos, the unbridled corruption of some of our leaders underlines the urgent need for discernment in selecting our leaders. It is our all-important vote which places government leaders in the positions of power which they may wield correctly or as we have seen, powers which some have wielded for self-aggrandizement in lieu of service-orientation with predilection for the neediest in our society.
WE ASK FOR TRUTH. WE ASK FOR JUSTICE.
WE ASK FOR LEADERSHIP THAT WE DESERVE, CHRIST-LIKE IN SERVICE TO THE NATION AND NATIONALISTIC IN ENVISIONING AND BUILDING A MUCH BETTER PHILIPPINES FOR ALL OF US.
PILIPINAS, nasa boto mo ang ating pag-ahon.
PILIPINAS, panagutin at ‘hwag limutin ang mga nanlulupig sa atin.
For any queries, clarifications on this statement, please contact Ana de Villa Singson, PPCRV National Media and Communications Director, Spokesperson and Voters Education Head at [email protected].
