Selective treatment
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A military probe on the corrupt “practice” and “tradition” in the Armed Forces of the Philippines relating to the use of military funds by generals and senior officials of the AFP in the hundreds of millions of pesos, is underway, but the focus, or so it appears, would be on the previous AFP officials’ terms, with the incumbent military officials spared from the probe.
As claimed by the AFP spokesman, there is no need to include the current military officials because these practice and tradition are a “thing of the past” and no longer in practice.
And the military under the new administration thinks that which its officials say is credible? Why should the current AFP leadership be believed when it claims that such corrupt practice is no longer being tolerated?
The corrupt practice has been going on for decades, and in that time, the military officials of today, who were then junior officers, have been promoted, and with their promotions, they necessarily got a piece of the AFP slush funds..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110202com1.html
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