Author: Alex Vidal

IT’S grossly unfair to all the Ilonggos living in Western Visayas and anywhere around the world that they have to endure the terrible shame and humiliation inflicted by the rancid P680-million Ungka flyover in Pavia, Iloilo.

NOW that the Iloilo Dinagyang Festival 2023 is history, let’s revert back to the most controversial topic the Ilonggos love to discuss and loathe for a good reason these past months: the scandal-ridden Iloilo flyover project.

WE don’t understand why some national media networks continue to treat the Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City with willful indifference.  

POLITICIANS who mulct from DPWH contractors are partly to blame if some infrastructure projects are substandard or “ghosts.”

The biggest scandal in Iloilo in 2022 does not involve public officials caught with their hands in the cookie jar for there was not a single known earthshaking expose made by investigative journalists; no more opposition firebrands in the local legislature willing to slug it out with capitol and city hall and capable of risking their political future fighting the political behemoths and dynasties.