VANCOUVER, Canada – President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Saturday (Canada time) disregarded requires his elimination from workplace over alleged “selective justice” and unresolved corruption circumstances in authorities, calling them “nonsense.”
“That makes completely no sense,” Marcos stated, noting that he’s the one president to show alleged anomalies in state-funded flood management tasks.
Marcos stated irregularities in flood management tasks have been solely disclosed throughout his watch, noting that previous presidents had did not look into the difficulty that occurred “past [his] administration.”
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He additionally acknowledged that the federal government is “not accomplished but” in holding accountable all these concerned within the flood management scandal.
“I can not say that we’ve got accomplished sufficient as a result of we aren’t accomplished but. Sadly, the extra we glance, the extra we discover. And it’s going already again past my administration, past my time period,” Marcos stated.
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He additionally cited that even his predecessor, former President Rodrigo Dutrerte, was conscious of the “nice issues when it comes to flood management tasks” however nothing occurred to deal with the matter.
“Having acknowledged it, it didn’t discover accountability in anyone. So, I suppose that was left as much as me to do. And so we’re nonetheless doing it. We’re nonetheless engaged on it,” Marcos stated.
“You realize it is a deep-seated system of corruption that requires not solely structural adjustments in the way in which authorities is run, in the way in which the finances is written, but additionally a change in angle,” he added.
In September 2025, Marcos issued Govt Order 94, creating the now-defunct Impartial Fee for Infrastructure (ICI) tasked with investigating the questionable flood management tasks.
The ICI earlier submitted its accomplishment report back to Marcos, detailing its actions and achievements from Sept. 15, 2025 to Jan. 18, 2026.
The fee has filed 9 referrals to the Workplace of the Ombudsman, coordinated the referral of 66 people to the Division of Justice, and contributed to the freezing of 6,692 financial institution accounts estimated at P24.7 billion.
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