SAN JOSE, Antique – Catholic Bishop Marvyn Maceda has sounded the call for the clergy to join the “Trillion Peso March,” a nationally organized rally this Sunday, September 21, demanding accountability in the aftermath of the biggest corruption scandal to confront the country in recent memory.
In a circular issued yesterday, September 19, Maceda decried the “flood control ghost projects and the billions of money that have left the poor in deprivation.” He said that these are “manifestations of the evil we are in, of a society that has lost its moral bearing.”
All Catholic clergy were urged to include in all Mass intentions a peaceful expression of indignation and the ringing of bells in parishes, churches, convents and oratories.
The Amlig Antique Alliance, a group of environmentalists, also called on the people to mass up at the EBJ Freedom Park and join in condemning widespread corruption and oppression.
The group called out Sunwest, Inc., widely linked to party-list congressman Rizaldy Co, for projects associated with “deforestation, landslides, flash floods, and the loss of watersheds that protect Panay from climate disasters.”
Amlig also demands a review of the San Jose Esplanade “which dredges waste from the seawall, smothering coral reefs and critically endangered sea turtles.”/PN
