Corruption is like 'snatching food from the mouths of babes'

By Tita C. Valderama

Sep 06, 2021 12:35 am

IN the early months of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, President Rodrigo Duterte likened corruption and ineptitude to 'snatching food from the mouths of babes.'

He promised in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 2020 that 'the profiteers, overpricers and corrupt felons... cannot outrun the long arm of the law.'

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