Reclaiming their right: Protesters holding placards while rallying at the People Power Monument in Manila. One of them reads, ‘Lock up the thieves and return the people’s money’. — AP
The country has named the first members of an independent commission tasked with investigating a spiralling scandal into bogus flood control projects that has already seen numerous lawmakers implicated.
Public scrutiny of so-called ghost infrastructure projects has been intensifying since President Ferdinand Marcos put them centre stage in a July state of the nation address that followed weeks of deadly flooding, pledging to name names.
