by: Megs S. Lunn
“It is difficult for an honest man to work with the government.”– The Bottomline
President Benigno S. Aquino, in his desire to clean up his government departments, installed Sec.Rogelio Singson, now one of his top 3 favorite cabinet members as the Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Sec. Singson said in one of his interviews recently, that government spending has slowdown in terms of infrastructure as they aligned their departments in focusing on what is right – which is to transform first his department in terms of values and culture on how to work honestly and rightfully.
It is noted that DPWH is one of the Top 3 Most Corrupt department and operators in the government. Whilst Sec. Singson accepted the position and the job with open eyes and understood perfectly what he is getting into, it is also his utmost desire to work to help the government and Pres. Aquino to clean up his department of corruptions.
During Arroyo’s administration, the spending on infrastructure was very visible especially on the countryside development. But then again, when her term ended, it is now the government’s contingent liabilities to finish what she started with a project that is a total failure, specifically the CAMANAVA mega-flood control project. Sec. Singson is now after the contractor and designer of this project to hold them liable and to make some corrections and to eventually have it running again.
On transforming the culture in his department, Sec. Singson said, “we start internally and I mean business, for my allies are the people, the general public.” Their strategies are to bring NGO’s and Civic Society to help watch DPWH projects.
As government employees, they believed that they are liable to the general public, therefore, the public should observe and report anomalies of any project implementation in their area.
For one, Sec. Singson walks his talk. As government leader, he is showing them how to change their attitude in visiting places and discouraging the overspending on fancy food preparation and reception. He brings his own water and crackers in the meetings. Sec. Singson is giving them the chance to mend their wrong ways so that the transformation will come from them, and that people will see in them how to behave properly in terms of attitude towards spending the tax money of the people.
Sec. Singson believes that in one year of being the Secretary of DPWH, he has lessened corruption to more than 10% and he has a long way to go. Their policy now is doing the right projects, at the right cost and with the right quality. He also said that the source of corruption begins from the bidding process where the people in the department do not know how to make project proposals, instead, they just ask for a budget.
He also reported that in 2014, all primary (national) roads of which we have about 31,000 thousand kilometers around the Philippines will be completed and while the minor ones will be in 2016. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a US Grant project that is helping the Philippines with farm to market roads of which DA and DAR helps and identifies the preliminaries. His department is now focused to fix the quality and safety of our national roads. Therefore, he is confident that corruption in his department can be reduced, if not totally eliminated.
Sec. Singson has a covenant to his country. By going out of his comfort zone and because he loves the Philippines so much, that he vowed to serve God and country through his position as DPWH Secretary to contribute to nation building./TE
President Benigno S. Aquino, in his desire to clean up his government departments, installed Sec.Rogelio Singson, now one of his top 3 favorite cabinet members as the Secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Sec. Singson said in one of his interviews recently, that government spending has slowdown in terms of infrastructure as they aligned their departments in focusing on what is right – which is to transform first his department in terms of values and culture on how to work honestly and rightfully.
It is noted that DPWH is one of the Top 3 Most Corrupt department and operators in the government. Whilst Sec. Singson accepted the position and the job with open eyes and understood perfectly what he is getting into, it is also his utmost desire to work to help the government and Pres. Aquino to clean up his department of corruptions.
During Arroyo’s administration, the spending on infrastructure was very visible especially on the countryside development. But then again, when her term ended, it is now the government’s contingent liabilities to finish what she started with a project that is a total failure, specifically the CAMANAVA mega-flood control project. Sec. Singson is now after the contractor and designer of this project to hold them liable and to make some corrections and to eventually have it running again.
On transforming the culture in his department, Sec. Singson said, “we start internally and I mean business, for my allies are the people, the general public.” Their strategies are to bring NGO’s and Civic Society to help watch DPWH projects.
As government employees, they believed that they are liable to the general public, therefore, the public should observe and report anomalies of any project implementation in their area.
For one, Sec. Singson walks his talk. As government leader, he is showing them how to change their attitude in visiting places and discouraging the overspending on fancy food preparation and reception. He brings his own water and crackers in the meetings. Sec. Singson is giving them the chance to mend their wrong ways so that the transformation will come from them, and that people will see in them how to behave properly in terms of attitude towards spending the tax money of the people.
Sec. Singson believes that in one year of being the Secretary of DPWH, he has lessened corruption to more than 10% and he has a long way to go. Their policy now is doing the right projects, at the right cost and with the right quality. He also said that the source of corruption begins from the bidding process where the people in the department do not know how to make project proposals, instead, they just ask for a budget.
He also reported that in 2014, all primary (national) roads of which we have about 31,000 thousand kilometers around the Philippines will be completed and while the minor ones will be in 2016. The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a US Grant project that is helping the Philippines with farm to market roads of which DA and DAR helps and identifies the preliminaries. His department is now focused to fix the quality and safety of our national roads. Therefore, he is confident that corruption in his department can be reduced, if not totally eliminated.
Sec. Singson has a covenant to his country. By going out of his comfort zone and because he loves the Philippines so much, that he vowed to serve God and country through his position as DPWH Secretary to contribute to nation building./TE
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