Letter to the Editor – More on graft and corruption

According to PERC survey, the Philippines is the 3rd most corrupt country in Asia. How true or how false the survey is, it has put our country in bad light.

Anti-corruption consultant Tony Kwok blames the media for graft and corruption image of the Philippines, the very thing the people in media readily reputed.

Why blame media? Who is Mr. Tony Kwok to blame the media?

Graft and corruption in the Philippines is already considered a cancer in our society. Why it happen, how it happen, only two people could give the exact and correct answer. These are the giver and the taker. In graft and corruption, it takes two to tango.

All agencies in the government are prone to graft and corruption. Unscrupulous government employees are hard to catch as far as graft and corruption are concerned not even Mr. Tony Kwok can stop them from doing so.

Graft and corruption in the Philippines is quiet different from graft and corruption in Hong Kong, culturally, socially, politically, economically, etc. It needs a strong political will in order to stop graft and corruption in the Philippines.

Those unscrupulous government employees who are engaged in graft and corruption are enjoying the benefit of being protected by their partners in crime and this is the very thing that the graft commission should look into with no stone left unturned.

Mr. Tony Kwok may be successful in his campaign against graft and corruption in his country but in the Philippines, I would only say to Mr. Tony Kwok, iba ang Pinoy.

Salcedo C. Gines
Bliss, Labangon
Cebu City