CHICKENPIE.So an insider finally talked, and surprise — the DPWH flood control projects that wash away every rainy season aren't actually failing because of bad luck. They're failing because the subcontracting food chain is a full-on fraud assembly line.
Picture this: main contractor gets the billion-peso budget. Sub-sub contractor gets half. Sub-sub-sub contractor gets a quarter. By the time someone actually puts a shovel in the ground, the concrete budget is basically "whatever's left." And the DPWH inspector? He got his envelope. He signed the paper. He looked the other way.
"Looking the other way" should be a crime.
This isn't a scandal that needs more whistleblowers to reveal. It's a scandal that needs prosecutors who aren't on somebody's list. Mr. Chicken, holding a Manila envelope thick with cash, standing on a pile of redacted documents — that image isn't funny because it's exaggerated. It's funny because it might as well be a photograph.
