Clean toilets, nice chairs, new elevators, escalators and other facilities should not be a reason for Ang to crow about inasmuch as passengers are footing the bill and nothing was spent out of the goodness of Ramon Ang’s heart.
He has become the expressway czar on top of being the operator of both NAIA and NMIA, meaning the Marcos regime has a difficult relationship with the idea that competition, rather than monopoly control, keeps the prices of goods and services low.
Mayroon din namang nangungutya na hindi naman mapagka-isa ang mga magra-rali. Hindi nila nakikita na iisa lang ang mga panawagan, kahit isigaw pa ito sa Bagumbayan o sa EDSA.
It is a lie for Ang’s rah-rah boys and media operators to shout to high heavens that the Filipino people accept the inevitability of higher fees for everything at the NAIA. As one of them wrote, it is “worth the wait.” For the group of Mawis and lawyer Eico Domingo, who has joined the fray along with labor unions, migrant workers’ organizations, the concession agreement is “worth the wake.”
Business columnists and uncritical business reporters – and there are about a dime a dozen of them – have been glorifying the full takeover of the operations of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) on September, gushing over the new escalators, elevators, walkalators and the clean toilets and bidets and lauding Ramon Ang for promising to spend billions to make the airport world-class. They should stop spouting crap.
“Kung sinasabi ng DA na FMRs ang gulugod ng food security at susi sa pagbaba ng presyo ng pagkain, bakit nila hinahayaan na magpatuloy ang sistema ng korapsyon at kapabayaan?” KMP asked.
They should not be allowed to “have their cake and eat it too.”
Religious groups and concerned organizations view this scandal as a stark revelation of a culture of impunity, in which greed undermines public trust and obstructs national progress.
Greenpeace, along with Ibon Foundation, scored the current regime for walking on its head in crafting the same graft-ridden budget year-in and year-out without analyzing whether the money was used efficiently, rationally and responsibly.
Malasin natin ang bundok-bundok na salapi na ibinuyangyang sa Kamara kahapon. At habang aking tinitipa ito ay walang tigil ang ulan. Nagbabantay na naman ang marami nating kababayan sa pinangangambahang malawakang baha.
