It is no small irony that while Obama advised his good friend GMA to stop clinging to power through corruption and deceit, the latter has already been laboring to end corruption in the Philippines and bring down the shenanigans.
"Our investments also include essential ways to strengthen our institutions of governance in order to fight the decades-old scourge of corruption," she said in her 2008 State of the Nation Address. "I will continue to fight this battle every single day. While others are happy with headlines through accusation without evidence and privilege speeches without accountability, we have allocated more than P3 billion – the largest anti-graft fund in our history – for real evidence gathering and vigorous prosecution."
If that were true, why, as reported in the news, the US Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) just won't give economic assistance to the Philippines until it curbs corruption?
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