Tiu

Cases such as the calamity called Yolanda, hundreds of millions of pesos in funds intended for the relief and rehabilitation of disaster victims did not reach them, where did they go? A question that I or you may ask. Cases such as this one can be usually seen here in the Philippines. Sure our country faced numerous calamities every year but excessive amount of calamity funds can be taken advantage of corrupt politicians. Calamities itself already has a huge long-term impact on our country’s economic growth and spending too much than the right amount would just burden the country’s fund a lot more. Although severe negative effects are inevitable, we can lessen the weight of the problem by setting a limiting amount for the calamity fund, focusing only on the necessities that actually needs to be fixed and given attention. Since calamities cause significant budgetary pressures, and our country’s fund can’t always keep up with the expenses needed for unexpected events such as natural disasters, a limited budget would be a great solution for this. For the past few years, the calamity funds are said to be not effective enough and lacks assistance in terms of the results of the projects that was given a huge amount of budget. Funds are not always placed into good use since some officials handling them don’t use it for the said project. Funds are not always placed into good use since some officials handling them don’t use it for the said project. Ghost projects always come along when excessive amount for a specific fund is used. It was always taken advantage of, and is even used as a lame excuse for corruption.