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Monetary Scandal ✏️ Glenn Junsay Pansensoy  ·  📁 National Affairs  ·  ⏱️ 6 min read The Money That Won’t Speak | Sara Duterte’s Confidential Funds Story The Money That Won’t Speak How Sara Duterte’s Paper Trail Collapses Into Silence In the shadowed corridors of Philippine power, where public money is meant to flow like a clear river toward the people’s needs, a different current has been running—one that slips through the cracks of ledgers and vanishes into silence. This is the story of Sara Duterte, Vice President and former Education Secretary, and the confidential funds entrusted to her offices. What began as entries on official documents has morphed into a riddle: If every peso was spent legitimately, why does the trail refuse to add up? Why does it dissolve into ghost names, whispered cash handoffs, and an unyielding quiet where answers should echo? The Funds Arrive It all started in late 2022, when th...

Rampant corruption ✏️ Glenn Junsay Pansensoy  ·  📁 National Affairs  ·  ⏱️ 6 min read The Blinded Sentinel: Samuel Martires and the Systematic Erosion of Accountability The Blinded Sentinel Samuel Martires and the Systematic Erosion of Accountability in the Philippine Ombudsman In a democracy strained by patronage and power imbalances, the Office of the Ombudsman stands as the constitutional bulwark against corruption — an independent guardian tasked with investigating graft, protecting public funds, and upholding ethical governance. Yet during Samuel Reyes Martires’ tenure from 2018 to 2025, this institution appeared to undergo a profound transformation: from aggressive watchdog to a selective shield that critics argue insulated the powerful while dimming the lights on transparency. Samuel Reyes Martires served as Ombudsman of the Philippines from July 2018 until his ret...