What are you waiting for, Congressman Dracula?

By Alex P. Vidal

“Corruption is paid by the poor.”—Pope Francis

ILONGGOS will not accept that their reputation will be sullied only because of Congressman Dracula.

They have produced great and illustrious leaders these past 100 years; the entire Filipinos hold the Ilonggos with utmost reverence for being brilliant, trailblazers, honest, resilient, industrious, and nation builders.

Ilonggos are enraged that because only of Congressman Dracula’s shenanigans and greediness, the good name they have built over the years will be ripped apart and shattered in one fell swoop.

They expected Congressman Dracula to tender his resignation out of delicadeza and turn over the reigns of the organization he represents in TONG-gress to the next nominee after his name was shamefully dragged into the scandalous multi-billion pesos flood control project anomalies.

But he did not. Congressman Dracula wouldn’t. What is he waiting for?

Instead, Congressman Dracula feigned innocence and denied to death accusations from corrupt DPWH contractors that he collected flood control project kickbacks for his malevolent godfathers, ex-Speaker Bondying and Congressman Zaltik.

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Nobody among those dishonest, deceitful and avaricious public officials has admitted taking turns in devouring big chunks of the multi-billion pesos intended to save Filipinos from floods during rainy season.

Like the wolfish Congressman Dracula, the druggles and grutnols of TONG-gress and SIN-nate, including the DPWH wolves and reptiles, continued to pretend they were only “victims of political persecution and harassment” and “lies intended to destroy our reputation.”

Reputation? What reputation Congressman Dracula, et al is talking about after stealing the taxpayers’ money?

They have sold their souls to the darkness of rapaciousness and transformed their characters into double-dealing hooligans, and they have the audacity to complain about their “damaged” reputations?

If they have a morsel of conscience and delicadeza, they would have resigned a long time ago and, more importantly, returned the millions or billions of pesos they have stolen from the people.

No more theatrics. No more melodrama. No more pa-awa effects and feeling aping api fakery.

We don’t need another Indonesia or Nepal to hunt them like wild animals and violently oust them like peahens and peacocks begging for their lives as they jump into the rivers and hide inside the manholes before being torn to shreds by an angry mob.

(The author, who is now based in New York City, used to be the editor of two leading daily newspapers in Iloilo.—Editor)