Name: SAHID KHAN U.

ABUTAZIL
Subject: OM 603 Management Planning and Control in the Public Sector
Professor: DR. AINONNACIRIN ABDULGANI

“PRRD’s war against the Oligarchs!”

President Duterte has declared war on the oligarchs. He has also vowed to
shut down a media conglomerate owned by an oligarch family, which refused to
pay back its staggering debt to the government and had consistently criticized
and disparaged his administration since he took over in 2016.

The President’s triumphant hosting of the 30th SEA Games (plus the
unprecedented stellar performance of Filipino athletes, enjoying the home-court
advantage). Duterte said organizers of the Games cannot simply brush aside
complaints of the athletes, which is why he promised an investigation into
supposed anomalies after the regional meet. "I’m really apologizing for the
country. They (foreign athletes) have to know that the government is not happy
with it and the President of the country where they are playing ordered an
investigation," he said in an exclusive interview with CNN Philippines.

Duterte explained that such issues are a "big deal" for countries participating in
the SEA Games as he warned that it would cost the Philippines since a poor
hosting would leave a bad impression of the country.

"To countries that sent them here, it's a big deal...Mabigat 'yun, you invite
countries to send athletes tapos ganoon mangyari," he said.
(That's a big deal. You invite countries to send athletes and then problems
happen.)
"It would cost us because when they (foreign athletes) go back, they would start
to talk about it," he added.

Duterte on Thursday also urged Filipinos to refrain from creating a "firestorm" on

issues concerning the Games as the Philippines gears up for its opening on
Saturday.

"If you're a reasonable man, of which I am calling everybody upon, do not create
a firestorm now because we are in the thick of preparations.," he told reporters in
Malacañang on Thursday.

"Let us investigate after and I assure you, I will investigate," he added.

The Philippines, which last hosted the biennial games in 2005, is aiming to win the
most medals, and history is on its side: 7 of the last 11 SEA Games hosts have
topped the table, reflecting the tradition of rewriting the sporting program to suit
local strengths.

Malaysia topped the table 2 years ago with home advantage in Kuala Lumpur,
ahead of Thailand and Vietnam, with the Philippines in sixth place.
Around 8,750 athletes and team officials are expected at this year's edition, and
there are some 12,000 volunteers. Organizers hope more than 500 million viewers
will tune in on TV.

In an eclectic program, Olympic sports like swimming and athletics sit side-by-side
with regional favorites like martial arts pencak silat, arnis and wushu, and this year
athletes will even battle an obstacle race course in Manila.

The recent firing of ICAD co-chair clearly bolstered his ‘fighting spirit’ but he was
really angry when he learned that the water concessionaires were insidiously
bilking the people of the National Capital Region through onerous contracts with
state and stood to oven collect indemnification from the government for their
operating “losses” in revenues, that was recently adjudged by an international
arbitral court as proper and enforceable..

The President when he announced his livid intention to run after and throw the
book at these water concessionaires warned those concerned that even if it went
so far as to cost him his life, he would ensure that they would go down and no
quarter given. They had grown obscenely richer off of the sufferings of the
ordinary people in the NCR service areas of these concessionaires when in fact
the potable water resource is owned by the State which endowed all citizens
every right to such basic social service.

Now, certain politicians particularly in the opposition are again in the hot seat
and/or spotlight for perhaps enabling or even criminally aiding and abetting such
shameless exploitation of the people as well as the corruption of government and
violation of the pertinent laws to enable the concessionaires to take egregiously
unfair advantage of a State-owned resource which therefore redounds to the
ultimate ownership by the Filipino people themselves.