TO be scrupulously fair, Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon did not explicitly express his opposition to the ambitious Build, Build, Build infrastructure development program of the Duterte administration. What he said was Build, Build, Build was a dismal failure because only nine of 75 flagship projects had been commenced, and because President Duterte had less than three years left in his term to make BBB happen.

Why the burly opposition senator should choose the Build Build Build program as his target for criticism completely escapes us, unless his object is to remind the nation that he has a big infrastructure project under his belt — the infamous Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) to enable the construction of his infrastructure brainchild, the Iloilo Convention Center.

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