Million People March is the march lead by millions of Filipinos to protests against the Pork Barrel Scam. Janet Lim Napoles said to have pocketed the money of our country after getting several evidences from the investigation. Many projects in Philippines should have completely done with the help of NGO’s but it turned out to be fake.
10-billion pork barrel scam have made Filipinos angry and vented it through social media. The pork barrel scam became the most trending issue after it was exposed on public. Though social media, Filipinos have expressed their dissatisfaction and disappointment towards our government.
Filipinos decided to show that they have had enough and tag the people through social media telling them to go to Luneta on August 26 in National heroes Day for a protests of what is happening in our country. Many people thought it was a set-up but proved to be true by the organizers.
The agenda of the event was to show to our Government that taxpayers are not pleased with them. Those who have found guilty of scamming the taxpayer’s money wants to be prosecuted by the people.
Thousands of Filipino voiced outraged graft-tainted pork barrel fund in the largest demonstration since the president, Benigno Aquino III, elected in 2010 on a platform to fight against the corruption here in the Philippines. Many professionals including students, workers, priest nuns, even civic and showbiz personalities have said to also attended the event for the graft in the country.
The social media-fuelled the rally dubbed the “Million People March” was emulated on smaller-scale in other cities across the country and in various cities around the world where there are concentrations of Filipinos. That is one of the big help that the ICT done in the Million People March.
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