MANILA, (PNA) — Despite the monumental stumbling blocks thrown in the way of the Aquino administration’s campaign to stop corruption that plagued many government institutions including those which were thought to be untouchables, Iloilo Congressman Jerry Trenas is convinced that President Benigno Aquino III will succeed in his determined effort to reform the bureaucracy.
He noted that allegations that the president bribed lawmakers through the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) purportedly to secure their support in the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona is one example of these attempts to discredit the president’s determined effort to get into the bottom of the P10-billion pork barrel scam.
“I think that our people will continue to rally behind President Aquino despite these attempts to discredit his administration’s campaign to reform the bureaucracy and stop this high-level corruption in government. All these intrigues and innuendos that are designed to impute malice on the president’s actions especially in response to the scandalous pork barrel scam will fail because our people are solidly behind him and his administration,” Trenas said in a press statement.
With the people solidly behind the on-going reforms in the bureaucracy, he emphasized that what is needed is determination and political leadership to achieve transparency and good governance which definitely, is one of the president’s finest qualities.
According to Trenas, speculations that politics is behind the president’s determined effort to run after those who have misused and abused billions of tax payers’ money will definitely fail to gather public support because it is obvious that these are only meant to throw off the administration’s resolve to destroy the solidly entrenched and systemic corruption in government.
“Even our people are already too tired of these endless excuses. What they want to see are results (and) that’s where the president is taking us,” he said.
“Our search for truth and justice may be a long and winding process and more often painful but we have to pay the price to regain our people’s trust. We have to rebuild our people’s confidence in government and make democracy more meaningful and that’s what the president is doing. He planted the seed of reform and it is up to usto nurture this,” he concluded.