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March
01, 2011
Whistleblowers advise P-Noy to hone new
Government workers as army against
corruption
Three
well-known whistleblowers on the misuse
of billions worth of Philippine public
funds today called on President Benigno
Aquino III (P-Noy) to hone and
strengthen the country’s future leaders,
government workers and students of
public administration as its new army
against corruption.
“We immediately need to find the
Filipino solution to graft and
corruption from the new breed of
Government workers. I have asked our
undergraduate students how they feel
about the series of exposes and their
answer is they are afraid to join
government now because they cannot
withstand the onslaught of corruption.
Those in government are continuously
demoralized and disgusted with the state
of governance,” said former national
treasurer Leonor Magtolis Briones, lead
convenor of Social Watch Philippines (SWP).
“We begin the quest for this solution by
organizing a forum among Heidi Mendoza
III, the public accountant who recently
revealed details of corruption in the
Armed Forces of the Philippines and Jose
de Venecia III, who exposed the
fraudulent deals on the National
Broadband Network controversy (NBN-ZTE)
and the young government workers,
students of public administration and
legislative staff in the Senate and
House of Representatives,” Briones said.
The forum titled “After the Exposes,
What Now” is organized by the University
of the Philippines National College of
Public Administration and Governance (UP
NCPAG), Practice of Administrative
Leadership and Service (PALS-NCPAG), UP-NCPAG
Alumni Association, KAAKBAY, Social
Watch Philippines, UP Heroes Core, UP
NCPAG Public Administration Class 208 of
Prof Noriel Tiglao and the UP NCPAG
Class 236 under Briones.
“We want to teach the middle level
government bureaucrats or new entrants
to government what to do when an “offer”
or “proposal” is made to them,” said
Heidi Mendoza. “We also want to find out
together what they can do as government
employees and future civil servants,”
she added.
“It appears that earlier attempts at
curbing or eliminating corruption have
failed, including huge, foreign funded
anti-corruption programs. We need
“out-of-the-box” initiatives, solutions
and alternative strategies,” Jose de
Venecia III said.
“The future public servants -- the new
breed of government workers – will play
key roles in fighting corruption, which
is getting worse every year. The Aquino
administration should immediately
consider strengthening this sector as
its army against corruption, because
more and more Filipinos are getting
hungry every minute” Briones said.
“Mendoza exposed that P303 million
people’s money may be used so that the
wives of Generals can travel around the
world and buy millions worth of houses
abroad. Meanwhile, more than 12 million
Filipinos have no money to buy food and
more than a million children are drop
outs from grade school because of
poverty,” Briones said. “De Venecia
exposed the scandalous P16-billion
foreign loan on ZTE. We all know that
the poor are the ones who carry the
burdens of the country’s debts,” she
added.
Briones’ organization, SWP, led the
Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI)
which exposed the P140 billion impounded
funds in 2008 for social development as
well as the impounded funds for health,
education, agriculture and environment
in the 2009 budget
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Whistleblowers advise P-Noy to hone new
Government workers as army against
corruption
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