YEN MAKABENTA
The seemingly gracious gesture of Maynilad Water to fly the trustees of the Metropolitan Water Works and Sewerage System (MWSS) to Hong Kong, billet them at the Four Seasons Hotel and provide them with shopping money is an act of bribery. The select journalists who went along for the junket could be called as witnesses to the crime, should a case of bribery be filed against the MWSS officials and Maynilad.