Heritage and septic tanks

When news broke about the Fort Bonifacio War Tunnel being used as a septic tank, I was writing the last column on heritage confusion. Which is to say that I was in the middle of realizing that the confusion is born of a lack of transparency as to who is responsible for which heritage structures, and how exactly the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) or the National Museum (NM) is deciding on which structures to restore, or preserve, or, well, simply care about.

Obviously the Fort Bonifacio War Tunnel is not one that they care about. And the cultural institutions responsible could say: we have such a small number of people, and we have no funding to do everything.