On a scale of 1–10, I’d say a good 8 on being really corrupt. It’s very corrupt, and the world may have an idea with how bad, but it’s pretty bad.
I can name a ton of issues relating to it, but there might be one scenario it was drastically bad how much the government messed up.
On 2013, the Super Typhoon Yolanda or Internationally known as Typhoon Haiyan struct the city of Tacloban. An entire city disappeared under storm surges and left thousands of citizens dead, and many more homeless.
The typhoon was the strongest typhoon recorded in history globally. The whole world knew of the massive destruction, but here’s the sad reality of this natural disaster.
The Government hid a lot of information.
According to the general information the Philippine Government released to global news network the total body count of the dead during the disaster was 6,329 and a total of 1,074 were missing at that time. What those outside the country didn’t know was that the body count exceeded 10,000. If you may wonder, why did the government lied about the body count? Well, if the real numbers were revealed at that time. All rescue operations, monetary and food supply relatively anything to the disaster will be managed and under the control of the United Nations. Though the president at that time had lied. Why?
Well 82 countries have donated money toward helping Tacloban city recover which amounted to a whooping $865,151,866. which was relatively enough money to help the city recover in a span of let’s give it five to six month, or at least less than a year.
The government pretty much spent as little as the monetary donations of the 82 countries over the course of rehabilitating the city. What could’ve been accomplished in less than a year took way longer. Some of the original citizens even from Tacloban decided to leave the city because of how bad things were.
There were also food, water, and even medical donations pouring into the country from all over the world. What happened? Well, this happened.
^These were some of the donations that government agencies left locked in warehouses far from Tacloban. Government agencies have left the donations to rot. I still even recalled like how weeks after the whole disaster, there was no food, no drinkable water, or no electricity in the entire city of Tacloban.
People got so desperate they began to steal from closed up stores, some of the survivors even began to beg toward any Red Cross volunteers to send them food and water or were desperate to leave the city.
The government was extremely slow to action, and only private organizations, the Red Cross and global volunteers were actually the first to attend to the needs of the survivors. Though it still boils my blood until now, how the government literally left all the perishable donations to rot. The reason they did so was because the incoming food donations were under “screening” and had to be repacked for equal distribution. But again, the government covered up the fact, no such sorting occur. Media found sacks of rotting rice, in the warehouses. Survivors were starving, and not enough donations reached them on the crucial first month of the disaster.
Financial assistance was also distributed rather slow, or not at all. If you visit Tacloban now, it was far from the first photo. Things are better now, but during the two years after the tragedy, there was a huge lacking from the government especially concerning how many had really died.
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