EVERY time I feel frustrated when people generalize the Philippine civil service as corrupt, I become like a porcupine with its spikes out, always ready to defend the lot of government employees who continue to serve this country with integrity.
One quote that has always inspired when I think I need to defend the civil service when it is unfairly attacked is a quote by Senator Juan Ponce Enrile many years ago at the Session Hall of the Senate, when he said, “no one has monopoly of love of country.”
With social media giving people the opportunity to exercise extensively their freedom of speech, allegations of corruption now abound.
Some people throw accusations without prudence and without data backing them up.
Thus, when Senate Secretary Oscar Yabes immediately addressed a call to allow entry to the Senate compound of people who request from senators all types of assistance for every imaginable need, without having to line up outside the gates, a comment by a friend that the Senate leadership might have immediately acted on the complaint for fear of losing their pork barrel caused me to retort back in defense of the institution.
Another quote, one by a certain Mr. Raffy Santos who is a friend of the equally dedicated Barefoot Colonel Mike Logico, says, “Somewhere in all institutions and groups, there will be genuine people who care for the country. May these types of people inspire us to go beyond self interest.”
I empathize with the employees of the Bureau of Customs, many of whom are my friends, who are hurting for the whole-sale accusation that everyone in the agency is corrupt.
Majority of these people are ordinary rank and file em-ployees who have been hankering for their many years of unpaid overtime payment.a ‘di na maulit ang mga Ondoy at Habagat sa ating buhay.
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