OLAÑO, ROE CEAZAR V.
BSED ENGLISH 3A
MC ALLIED 1- 4:00-5:30pm
“Who’s to Blame: Flood Control or Fund Control? “
The Department of Public Works and The real victims here are the youth.
Highways (DPWH) has once again We are not merely inconvenienced; we are
announced a new wave of flood control robbed of precious learning time and placed
projects, supposedly to protect communities in dangerous situations. Education is
from the relentless downpour that turns our interrupted, mobility is hindered, and hope
streets into rivers. Yet every rainy season, for a flood-free future drowns with every
students, workers, and ordinary citizens still storm. As students, we demand
find themselves stranded or wading through accountability. Flood control is not just an
filthy waters. If billions are poured into engineering challenge—it is a matter of
these projects, then why are we still sinking? justice, of ensuring that public funds serve
The question now is clear: are we really the people and not the pockets of a few. We
controlling floods, or just controlling funds? deserved safer communities and
uninterrupted education.
From the perspective of students, the
failure is felt every time classes are It is time for DPWH and our leaders
suspended or school materials are ruined by to stop recycling promises and start
floods. While DPWH boasts of billions of delivering results. the DPWH must act with
peso drainage and dike projects, many transparency and urgency, real flood control
remain half-baked or poorly maintained. The means building resilient infrastructure,
government claims these efforts are for our ensuring proper maintenance, and
safety, but reality paints a picture of eradicating corruption in every project. Until
negligence and corruption. If the projects transparency and urgency replace
were done with transparency and efficiency, inefficiency and neglect, the public will
then we should already see results—not continue to ask: who’s really in control—the
classrooms turned into swimming pools. The floods, or the funds?
DPWH must be accountable.
