Impeachment drive: (From left) Lawmakers Sara Elago, Antonio Tinio and Louise Co hold documents endorsing an impeachment complaint against Marcos at the House of Representatives in Quezon City. — AFP
Members of Philippine civil society groups filed an impeachment complaint against President Ferdinand Marcos, accusing him of systematically bilking taxpayers out of billions of dollars for bogus flood control projects.
Rage over so-called ghost infrastructure projects has been building for months in the archipelago country of 116 million, where entire towns were buried in floodwaters driven by powerful typhoons in the past year.
