Will PNoys Also Blame President Duterte For The Recent Flood In Imperial Manila?

It's already an issue to blame whoever is in power. Then we have PNoys who are blaming President Duterte for just everything from supposedly endorsing EJKs, the latest shabu shipment from Tsina which was obviously NOT endorsed by the Chinese government as Agot Isidro may suggest. Maybe they might also blame him for the floodings like there were no flooding under Noynoy's term. But let's wait a minute. Before those PNoys would raise their annoying PNoy Pride and say, "It's Duterte's fault that the flood happened."... let's take a review of how serious flooding became under their beloved Noynoy's term.

Here's an interesting catch from Get Real Philippines which has been wrongly labeled as fake news by Dilawans because it so goes against them:

President BS Aquino knew that there was great risk of another Ondoy-like flooding and that it could happen anytime especially during the rainy season. Alas, he did not mount a big enough effort to prevent it from happening again. He even cancelled GMA’s PhP1.9 billion worth of various flood control projects as well as the P18.7 billion Laguna de Bay dredging project signed during her term — allegedly out of spite. He recently claimed that the project was a “joke” and that it would not have made any difference in easing the perennial flooding of the capital. How he knows that it wouldn’t have made a difference is a real mystery and it goes to show that he seems to be treating most things as a joke. This could explain the permanent sneer and sarcastic tone people observe coming from the President.

Two years after having won the election, much of the country still experienced flooding; flooding that in this instance has brought many industries — including the vital financial services industry — to a standstill for more than a week in the beginning of August. The President is only now scrambling to talk of flood prevention projects after the fact. From the drawing board, he promised ring-road dikes along Laguna de Bay, embankments and catch basins in the Marikina River watershed and an 8-kilometer dike and pumping station in the Camanava (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela) area.

That’s all well and good but he could have done this as soon as he moved into Malacañang. He could have put this down as his top priority considering he kept blaming GMA for Ondoy. While speaking to evacuees at the time, he vowed “to complete the three anti-flood projects before the end of his term in 2016”. It’s not like we haven’t heard him promise things before but he still had the nerve to ask the people to be patient, even complimenting himself for his projection, “It’s not in my nature to engage in flattery…I can finish this.”

As of this writing, the nameless disaster that befell Manila claimed 72 deaths so far while nearly 850,000 remain stranded or displaced. The amount of damage to public and private property including agriculture and infrastructure remain unaccounted for with sinkholes wreaking havoc on major roads and highways causing further damage to unsuspecting motorists.

Like his predecessor, President BS Aquino is not entirely to blame for the recent flooding in the Philippines. I’m sure he wishes that this calamity didn’t happen. And I’m sure he’d rather sleep in after his regular late nights of boozing with his drinking buddies as some have alleged, instead of going to flooded areas for photo ops. However, he was in charge of allocating the national budget and setting the national agenda. A lot of people are saying that for the last two years, he has been very preoccupied with exacting revenge from his perceived enemies instead of prioritizing what is important.

While Noynoy shouldn't be blamed for everything but there's one thing we can be certain. By canceling Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's budget for flood control because it's supposedly "evil" he has doomed the Philippines. He could have picked that up and finished it. But I guess he let his ego get in the way. Just as Duterte supporters shouldn't blame Noynoy for all the floods last term then PNoys shouldn't blame President Duterte for every flood under his term. If we think about it every term inherits the positives and negatives from each previous administration. You can think that Noynoy did inherit Gloria's projects which he could have continued but chose not to. 

If those PNoys are going to blame Duterte for all the floods then think what about the neglect that Noynoy did which contributed to worsening floods? Noynoy can't say that because he doesn't control nature that he can't take any blame. By cancelling flood control projects and budgets he has been guilty of neglect. It's just like a police captain who could have prevented the escape of the public enemy no. 1 but he chose to let the latter escape. That's what Noynoy did during his term. He could have done something but chose to do nothing. 

So what's their basis they'll blame President Duterte? Is it going to be as nonsense as he's an "ill omen" or anything preposterous? Let's just wait and see.