Last year, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. delivered his 3rd State of the Nation Address. Among other things, he flexed the implementation of over 5,500 flood control projects, with plans for around 10 more large scale projects amounting to over 500 billion pesos to be implemented over the next 13 years. These projects once promised to alleviate the lives of Filipinos, yet following the recent ravages of various typhoons, the projects that once promised to save lives, are now drowning in corruption.
