Around 5,000 students from major Benguet universities march through Baguio on Tuesday, Nov. 18, after staging coordinated classroom walkouts to protest alleged government corruption. (Photo by Jethro Bryan Andrada)
BAGUIO CITY: Around 5,000 students from major Benguet universities staged synchronized classroom walkouts that culminated in a centralized protest in Baguio on Tuesday (Nov 18), denouncing government corruption amid ongoing national budget controversies.
The demonstrations followed businessman Elizaldy “Zaldy” Co’s claim that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez ordered P100 billion in budget insertions in the proposed 2025 national budget—P81 billion of which allegedly went to the Department of Public Works and Highways, according to Inquirer reports.
