Tens of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in Manila, in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood-control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful members of Congress and top government officials. Following the discovery that thousands of flood defense projects across a typhoon-prone country were substandard, incomplete or non-existent, various groups protested. The Philippines has lost 15.09 billion dollars to corruption in flood control projects over the last two years. Government engineers, public works officials and construction company executives have testified in hearings that members of Congress and officials at the Department of Public Works and Highways took kickbacks to win contracts.
00:00Moving now to the Philippines, tens of thousands of Filipinos gathered Sunday in Manila in the largest rally so far to demand accountability for a flood control corruption scandal that has implicated powerful members of Congress and top government officials.
00:15Following the discovery that thousands of flood defense projects across a typhoon-prone country were substandard, incomplete or non-existent, various groups protested.
00:25The Philippines has lost 15.09 billion dollars to corruption in flood control projects over the last two years.
00:32Government engineers, public work officials and construction company executives have testified in hearings that members of Congress and officials at the Department of Public Works and Highways took kickbacks to win contracts.
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