Rizal Philippines
September 10, 2016
I was talking to a former high level former govt official. He used to head a govt bank, an authority, could have been a BiR Commissioner. and was close to former President.
He confided to me the realities of power. And indeed power corrupts, and it corrupts absolutely. This was said by a very young lawyer who graduated from a Jesuit school in USA, who became a congressman from Eastern Visayas. He said that corruption is sucking him in, and may be very soon he could be corrupt too.
He said food, gifts, offers from suppliers from people wanting to do business with the govt. never stops. Even the best of saints cant resist the offer, the senior govt official has been said.
Can Duterte and his staff, resist temptation.
Or is it Oscar Wilde reality " I can resist all kinds of temptation except temptation itself"
