If we would conduct a survey why middle class Filipino families are migrating to other parts of the world. We will be surprised that one of the many reasons that they would cite is the shameless graft and corruption in the Philippine government bureaucracy.
Corruption
scandals are dark shadows that have constantly tailed the Philippines since the
Marcos regime up to the present government. Let us take for example the present
government. For almost a month now many
elected government officials has been plagued by accusation of corruption labeled
as the pork barrel scam.
The question
that begs to be answered now is this: can we still slay the deeply ingrained culture
of corruption in the Philippine bureaucracy? Yes we can still slay this evil in
Philippine governance however it will be a pipe dream if we would say that we
can exterminate this within the time span of five to ten years.
But all is not
lost because there’s still hope and it rest on the shoulders of the present
political leaders of this country. If only they will think of crafting a law
that will make the evils of corruption and its corresponding punishments a
permanent subject matter in our entire educational system. It will start during
elementary up to the last year of college. So that strong value formation is
inculcated against corruption in the minds of the future leaders this country.
