@manilaunlocked: Why Is an Urban Storytelling Channel Talking About Corruption?🔥 #floodcontrolscam #accountability Manila Unlocked is an urban storytelling channel. We show you streets, buildings, food, history. So why are we posting about a corruption scandal? Because the streets we'd normally be walking are underwater, and not just from rain. Investigations opened in 2025 confirmed hundreds of flood control projects across the country existed only on paper: funded, marked complete, and never actually built. Estimated public losses run into the tens of billions of pesos every year since 2023. These are official findings, not speculation- they've already led to criminal charges, arrest warrants, and hold-departure orders against implicated officials and contractors. We started this channel to show you the city as it actually is. Right now, that means showing you why "actually is" includes flooded intersections that shouldn't be flooding, and asking why money meant to prevent that never reached the ground. We'll keep walking when it's safe to shoot the streets. Until then, we think silence would be its own kind of dishonesty about the city we cover. 🌊What's flooding looked like on your street this year- worse than before, or about the same? Tell us below. 📍 Metro Manila

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Wednesday 19 August 2026 14:00:00 GMT