Conspiracy in the Philippine Government

The Philippines and it's leaders are now facing a great scandal following the exposè about the alleged overpricing led by the First Gentleman on the deal between the NBN (National Broadband Network) project of the government and the ZTE Corporation of China.

It all started when a certain businessman named Joey De Venecia appeared on a Senate hearing a few months later and said that the First Gentleman points his finger on him and said "back off" which according to De Venecia, the First Gentleman wants him to back off as a bidder on the said government project.

Few months after this, former House Speaker Jose De Venecia, father of Mr. Joey De Venecia was thrown out of his post on the Congress amidst the fact that before this revelation came out, the Speaker and the Palace had a great political relation.

Few weeks after leaving his post, he said in an interview that when his son Joey started to reveal the anomalous acts of the First Gentleman and their allies, Mrs. Arroyo talked to him and urged him to stop his son from telling what his son knows about the said deal between the NBN and the ZTE, or else he will be thrown out of his post. He even said that Mrs. Arroyo uses her two son Datu and Mikey which are also members of the House to lead the move against him should he fail to stop his son from telling the truth about the deal.

Then another witness came out in the name of Mr. Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada, an electronics and communications engineer by profession and the former president of the Philippine Forest Corporation (PFC).

Being an expert in IT, Commission on Higher Education chairman Romulo Neri, then socioeconomic planning secretary and head of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) hired Lozada as consultant for the NBN project.

Neri said former COMELEC Chairman Benjamin Abalos offered him P200 million in exchange for his endorsement of the NBN deal with ZTE Corp. but the former chairman deny the allegations of Neri.

And before Lozada's appearance in the Senate, he reportedly to have been abducted by some policemen and a member of the Presidential Security Group after his arrival on the airport from Hong Kong.

The Philippine National Police headed by Avelino Razon denies this allegations saying they know nothing about this and that the alleged kidnapping happened in the part of Lozada was just a mere drama. They said that it was Lozada who asks the help of the police for his protection following numbers of death threats he had receive even when he was in Hong Kong.

While in Hong Kong, he said he was given some Php500,000.00 by Deputy Executive Secretary Manuel Gaite as pocket money, he even told that some Palace officials advised him to go to Europe for he and his family's safety instead of going back to the Philippines but he insisted to go back to his native land and face the consequences of what he has started.

So many names came out following his revelation but no one among them admits their participation or knowledge in the controversy, they were all covering each other and pretends to be innocent.

Filipino people are sick and tired of this kind of political conspiracy, someone is hiding something over the other and the leaders who are doing bad things are always using their accomplice to hide the truth in exchange of a higher government position or a big amount of money sufficient enough to live luxuriously.

Every time a Filipino made good things over the other race, be it in sports, arts, inventions etc., many Filipino said that "I'm proud to be a Filipino", in fact Filipino's are known for almost every corner of the world in many different fields, but with this kind of political system we have right now, can we still face them bravely and say that we are proud to be a Filipino?

On my part, I still can say that I'm proud to be a Filipino. What I am not proud of is the dirty system that this government runs and the leaders that instead of being a good example to their fellow countrymen in uplifting their lives and taking the country out of the list of the most corrupt country in the world, they are adding more bad impressions to the world by doing such things

As what Lozada said, "it was the high-level corruption and bureaucratic inefficiency that made many Filipinos lose trust in the government and its institutions".

Effects of a Growing Economy

I was so amazed when i accidentally had a glance on a headline of one of the leading broadsheet last Friday, it says that the Philippine economy turned in its best performance in 31 years. The Palace also said that the high growth rate registered in 2007 was a clear manifestation that President Arroyo has taken the right economic strategies and fundamentals and steps have been taken to sustain the momentum.

Despite all of this "good news" the Palace said, majority of the Filipino people doesn't believe in them. Why? Because for almost every time they speak to public, they always said that the Philippine economy is playing very well against the other Asian country and that for now Philippines is now in the lead in terms of economic growth in Asia.

Mrs. Arroyo also said that she will end her term with “a bigger stride in economic growth, surge of more foreign investments, more jobs for our people, strong currency and better delivery of basic services that will all be benefiting the poorest sector of our society.”

But would you please take a look at this pictures and tell me if the growth they are telling are for real


Homeless Families











Toiletless Community
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Children Suffering from Starvation



















Garbage Problem










Now I asked myself, is this the fruit of Mrs. Arroyo's hard work for her alleged uplifting of the lives of the Filipino people? Or this is just another tale she created on her mind?

The Filipino people are sick and tired of asking when should they feel the effect of the "good news" to their lives. Till when will they suffer from poverty, extreme starvation, justice unfairness and a lot of promises they had made before they took their posts?

Though its sad to say, we cannot deny the fact that they were all part of a broken promise.