00:00Thank you so much for having us today, Mr. President.
00:03Thank you so much.
00:04Okay, we'll get to the flood control projects first.
00:07Okay.
00:07Okay.
00:08Meron kayong binubuong independent body para imbestigahan yung mga anomalous flood control project.
00:15Can you tell us sino yung mga kasama dito sa independent body na ito?
00:19Well, what I can tell you is that unang-unang,
00:22nagbubuo nga tayo ng tinatawag naming independent commission.
00:26Wala pang formal name, pero yun ang binubuo namin, independent commission para imbestigahan.
00:32Ito nga ang mga lumalabas na anomalya sa mga flood control project.
00:36Yung mga personalities, ayoko namang maunahan ang actual announcement dahil hindi pa solid talaga, pero malapit na.
00:46Pero paano silang maiba po sa mga existing agency like COA, Ombudsman?
00:50They're completely separate from government.
00:52But how powerful will they be?
00:53We will give them all the powers that are necessary for them to come to a conclusion, to come to some findings,
01:00para meron naman, alam natin kung ano yung nangyari.
01:03At isa pa yung bagay dito na napakahalaga para sa akin,
01:08dahil ang lalim na ng problema,
01:11ang nais ko talagang malaman,
01:13paano ba tayo umabot sa ganito?
01:16Paano nga ba?
01:17Bakit paging ganitong kamalasinilor corruption?
01:19Sa nung ako ay governor, hindi ganito.
01:26At bukod pa sa laki ng halaga ng nakukuha ng kung sino-sino na tao na wala namang karapatan na bulsahin ang pera na yan,
01:36bukod pa ron, ay hindi nila tinatago.
01:43Garapala na po.
01:45In your words, it's economic sabotage.
01:48It's a shock because ngayon sila, wala, walang pakialam.
01:51But how did it become that way?
01:53This is what I really, how did we evolve, how did the system evolve?
01:59So it became like this.
02:01It did not happen overnight.
02:03This happened over many decades.
02:06And we have to figure out kung ano ba talaga ang nangyari,
02:09para hindi na mangyari ulit, to put the safeguards in place,
02:13if it requires legislation, if it requires restructuring the government.
02:18Lahat yan kailangan natin gawin.
02:20Pero kailangan natin malaman kung paano tayo,
02:23ako nasasak ako, hindi ako makapaniwala na nandito na tayo na ganito na ang gobyerno.
02:31But so many regimes and it just keeps getting worse.
02:35It did.
02:35And so how did we get here and what can we do now?
02:39Well, I cannot give you a complete answer to how did we get here.
02:45The simplistic answer will be, paano tayo nagkaganto?
02:48Dahil pinabayaan.
02:50And what can we do?
02:52What we can do is to find out how this happened,
02:56who are the people that are involved,
02:57make them answerable for their wrongdoing,
03:01and fix the structure so this is not allowable.
03:06That's the word that I think that I mean, it became allowable.
03:10Okay lang.
03:11Hindi problema yan.
03:13Hindi krimen yan.
03:14Sige lang.
03:14It was normalized.
03:16People have come to accept this.
03:19But to the level na 30% na lang,
03:22yun ay iiwan sa mga proyekto,
03:24astounding yun.
03:25That's the part that talagang hindi ako makatulog pag iniisip ko,
03:30paano tayo nagkaganto?
03:32That's why we're really looking forward to this independent body which you will be forming.
03:36And we're just wondering, how powerful will this body be?
03:40Will they be able to even investigate the Congress people,
03:44the Senate,
03:45will they have subpoena powers?
03:47They will have the authority to investigate anything and anyone.
03:50Otherwise,
03:51then what,
03:52they will have,
03:53they will have,
03:53they will have sacred cow na naman,
03:55may pinaproteksyonan dahil kasama sa politika,
03:57whatever.
03:58Pagka nangyari yun ay wala rin,
04:00wala rin,
04:01wala rin kabuluhan yung kanilang investigation.
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