President Marcos, in his fourth SONA, acknowledged the disappointment over his administration’s performance and vowed to go after corrupt public works officials and contractors over substandard and incomplete flood control projects that caused severe flooding in the past week.
Protesters burn an effigy of “zombies BBM and VP Sara” as they prepare mass actions on the stretch of Commonwealth Avenue toward the Batasan Pambansa in Quezon City where President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will deliver his fourth State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 28, before a joint session of the 20th Congress.
In the first three years of the Marcos presidency, cuts made by Congress in the annual budget program surpassed the P1-trillion mark, mostly from strategic transport, infrastructure and agri-based investments, and shifted to graft-prone projects like flood control, drainage systems and other local projects.
