🚨 “Trillion-Peso Rage”: Manila Erupts Over Flood-Control Corruption Scandal 😡🚧 The streets shook before the thunderclouds did. Did Manila just trigger the biggest anti-corruption reckoning of the decade, or will this outrage be archived like all the others until the next storm drowns us again? Manila woke up to a chorus of whistles, placards, and boiling anger as thousands of Filipinos flooded key sites to denounce a ballooning corruption scandal tied to flood-control projects that were supposed to protect the public from disasters. The protests gathered at Luneta and the People Power corridor along EDSA, with police on heightened alert. The rallying cry was blunt and universal: jail them, now. The energy on the ground felt like a collective audit of the whole system, not just a single agency. Reports throughout the day confirmed the scale and stakes, from the crowd counts to the government’s scramble to contain the fallout. Let’s get the receipts out first. The scandal...
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