What section of the Aquino bureaucracy is unblemished by integrity and competence and where corruption and illegal deals have been the dominant narrative? Easy to answer—the MRT 3 in particular and the railway system in general. The top story of the Manila Times on July 28, written by Chairman Emeritus Dante A. Ang, on a P140 million bribe allegedly received by a power player in the Aquino administration from train supplier Inekon, was just one in the collection of shady deals so far piled up by the MRT 3.
Who pocketed the P140 million? No one in authority seems to be interested in finding out? Why are the integrity jihadists in the Aquino administration suddenly limp and wimpy on the corruption issues that relate to the MRT 3? The intensity of purpose that has been dedicated to the inquiry of the pork barrel scam to jail and humiliate members of Congress, from prominent senators and obscure congressmen, does not apparently apply to the morass of corruption and incompetence that is the MRT 3.
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