23/08/2025
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🟥 The Audacious Hypocrisy of Mark Villar: From DPWH Secretary to Senate Corruption Investigator
You turn on the Senate hearing and see Mark Villar sitting there, acting like an investigator.
A man who was DPWH Secretary while billions disappeared into ghost projects now pretends to police corruption.
It’s fu***ng insulting. It makes my blood boil.
It’s hypocrisy so brazen you almost choke on your coffee.
🟥 The Foundations of a Tainted Legacy
Mark Villar’s appointment to DPWH in 2016 wasn’t merit. It was dynasty.
His family empire in real estate stood to gain from every road alignment and project approval.
His father Manny had already written the playbook with the C-5 extension mess.
The Senate found that Manny Villar manipulated the road’s alignment so it curved around Villar-owned properties, instead of taking the direct route.
This decision allegedly brought ₱6.22 billion in benefits to family corporations like Adelfa Properties, Golden Haven Memorial Park, and Azalea Real Estate Corporation.
Roads were literally bent to protect profit. Despite this, accountability never came—Manny and his allies boycotted Senate sessions until the report recommending censure collapsed.
Mark inherited more than wealth. He inherited the system of impunity.
🟥 The Ghost Projects of His Tenure
From 2016 to 2021, Mark Villar presided over a DPWH that turned into a gold mine for repeat funding and ghost projects.
In 2020, Senator Panfilo Lacson flagged ₱469 billion in “reinserted” projects—items already funded in the past, slipped back into the 2021 budget. He called it unconstitutional.
Bulacan tells the story best.
Wawao Builders, one of the contractors exposed, handled 85 projects worth ₱5 billion in Bulacan and ₱9 billion nationwide.
The DPWH itself admitted that ghost flood control projects in Calumpit, Hagonoy, and Malolos existed on paper but not in reality. Communities thought they were protected.
Then the floods came.
During investigations, Senator Jinggoy Estrada revealed that of the top 15 flood control contractors, only seven even bothered to show up at hearings.
The rest sent excuses like “medical appointments” or simply didn’t appear.
The evasion mirrored Manny Villar’s old tactic of dodging accountability during the C-5 scandal.
And let’s not forget: in 2020, Villar announced his own Task Force Against Graft and Corruption.
A watchdog that watched nothing.
Ghost projects worth billions happened under his very nose.
He either turned a blind eye or was part of it.
Either way, he has no right to sit in judgment now.
🟥 The Theater of Senate Investigation
Fast forward to August 19, 2025.
Mark Villar sits in the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on ghost flood control projects.
His opening statement called for a “comprehensive and integrated flood control master plan,” criticized “fragmented and substandard projects,” and warned that “public funds must not be wasted on projects that are poorly executed or disconnected from a larger plan.”
He even demanded to “hold erring contractors and personalities accountable.”
But here’s the fact: no comprehensive DPWH flood control master plan was ever turned over to the Marcos administration after Villar left.
He had five years to build one. He left nothing.
He isn’t ignorant of the technical details.
He once explained: “You can fix one section and the flow of water will improve, but when it reaches another section without flood control, the water will accumulate.”
He knows exactly how flood systems work. Which makes his failure to stop ghost projects during his watch even harder to excuse.
🟥 The Mechanics of Dynasty Protection
Running for Senate in 2022 wasn’t coincidence. It was escape.
As a senator, Villar can’t be hauled in like a private citizen.
He sits on the investigating side of the table instead of the one facing charges.
And the dynasty is everywhere.
His mother Cynthia. His sister Camille. Three Villars in the Senate, enough to twist the story and protect their own.
Government as a family franchise.
🟥 The Institutional Corruption of Selective Justice
This isn’t just about Villar. Look at that whole panel.
These ghost projects didn’t happen in secret.
They were happening while these same senators were already sitting in office.
And now they act shocked, wagging fingers at contractors like they weren’t part of the same system that approved those bloated budgets.
F**k this Senate investigation.
F**k this performance of outrage.
The same body that let Manny Villar walk away from C-5 is now letting his son Mark pretend to be an anti-corruption crusader.
It’s selective justice, and everyone is pretending like nothing's wrong.
Committee chair Rodante Marcoleta didn’t even acknowledge the conflict of interest in allowing Villar to investigate ghost projects from his own tenure.
That silence makes the whole probe a farce.
🟥 The Cost of Hypocrisy in Lives and Resources
Behind the numbers are people.
Ghost projects don’t just waste money; they drown families.
Recent floods affected nearly three million families, claimed 37 lives, and caused ₱16.51 billion in infrastructure damage.
Some of those families believed they were safe because a project had already been funded.
Then the water came and nothing stood in the way.
That ₱469 billion in repeat funding could have built schools, hospitals, working flood barriers. Instead, it padded pockets. Communities stayed vulnerable.
Ghost projects aren’t abstract—they kill.
The damage isn’t only immediate.
Corruption on this scale poisons development for years. Investors lose confidence. Costs rise. Oversight thickens.
Every honest project is slowed down because of the mess Villar left behind.
🟥 The Broader Pattern of Elite Impunity
This is the Villar pattern. Manny walked away from C-5 richer than ever, eventually crowned the country’s wealthiest man.
Mark walked away from DPWH into the Senate.
No shame, no pause, just another office to hold.
They don’t answer to anyone. They just move seats when the heat gets close.
That’s the disease of Philippine politics. Dynasties laundering their failures by pretending to investigate the very crimes they committed.
Senators wagging fingers at contractors while keeping their own hands clean.
Everyone playing reformer, nobody taking blame.
🟥 Conclusion: The Mockery of Public Service
Mark Villar should be in the hot seat, not holding the gavel.
He should be grilled about ghost projects, not lecturing about them.
Communities died in floods his department was supposed to prevent.
Billions vanished while he signed budgets.
Now he calls for accountability.
And this Senate nods along, as if the problem is outside the room.
Every single one of them knows the truth: those ghost projects happened while they were there.
While they voted, while they smiled for cameras, while they pocketed pork.
The real ghost is accountability. It never shows up.
🟥 Sources
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