Corruption In The Philippines

In Freddie Aguilar’s song “Para sa Tunay na Pagbabago” the first and second line “Ikaw ang pangulo para sa pagbabago. Sawa na ang bayan ko sa magnanakaw na tao.” It says that the people in our country Philippines is already tired of the people who steals from our country. And it is really shown in the 2016 presidential election on May 9 when President Rodrigo Duterte won. Many want change, that’s why in over 54 million Filipinos who have signed up to vote, our newly elect President Rodrigo Duterte won the election with a 16.6 million lead. But who really is President Duterte, a tough-talking mayor, “The Punisher” for his lax attitude to the extrajudicial killings that is happening now in our country or the “iron hand” who will punish all the corrupt leaders in our society, a soft-hearted President who shed tears for the children around him who have disabilities physically and mentally.

That’s why many of our people, especially on the church and department of human rights, opposed him and his ideals for exterminating drugs in the Philippines. At some point they are right, there are many ways to eliminate drugs in our country. But on our newly elect President’s point of view imprisoning people who are involved in drugs and after some time release them because they have paid bail is so wrong because for him the only way in eliminating drugs in the Philippines is to exterminate its very roots and that is the drug lords and