Kidapawan bishop urges full accountability in big corruption cases

COTABATO CITY — A Roman Catholic bishop in Mindanao welcomed President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s intensified anti-corruption campaign, but he also urged the administration to hold all officials implicated in major corruption scandals accountable. “We appreciate the president’s strong declaration that corruption has no place in public service,” Diocese of Kidapawan Bishop Jose Colin Bagafor said in a statement issued Tuesday, in reaction to the president’s fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA). Bagaforo chairs the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Episcopal Commission on Interreligious Dialogue. He said the filing of cases stemming from the alleged flood control […]...

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