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Claire Castro: ‘He’s Just a Vulnerable Pawn!’ Zaldy Co: ‘Here’s Your P25-Billion Receipt, Ma’am’

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Claire Castro: ‘He’s Just a Vulnerable Pawn!’ Zaldy Co: ‘Here’s Your P25-Billion Receipt, Ma’am’
One Claims Tears, the Other Claims 500 Suitcases – Guess Who Packed More Lies?

By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 18, 2025

WHILE Metro Manila drowns again, two people are busy drowning each other in accusations. One is hiding overseas. The other is reading from a Palace teleprompter. Both claim to be victims. Only one thing is certain: the Filipino people are the real losers. Let the autopsy begin.

1. “Poor Little Zaldy Got Used!” – The Palace’s Tear-Jerker That Deserves an Oscar for Fiction

Palace Press Officer Undersecretary Atty. Claire Castro went on Super Radyo dzBB and delivered a performance worthy of Nora Aunor in her prime: Zaldy Co is just a “vulnerable” ex-congressman being manipulated by mysterious “power-seekers” who promised him immunity if President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM) falls. Reality check harder than a typhoon signal No. 5:

  • If Co was a mere pawn, why did former Speaker Martin Romualdez personally install him as House Appropriations Committee chairman — the single most powerful budget post in Congress?
  • Castro proudly announced there was “no direct communication” between Marcos and Co. Convenient — because Co never claimed there was. He said the marching orders came through Romualdez and Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman. Classic cut-out deniability.
  • The “power-seekers” narrative only surfaced after half a million Filipinos marched on EDSA-Shaw Boulevard screaming for accountability. Funny how concern for Zaldy’s vulnerability appeared exactly when the administration needed a distraction.

Read Castro’s full fairy tale here: [GMA News – “Zaldy Co possibly used by power-seekers — Castro”]

She swears he’s a pawn, he swears he delivered pallets—either way, the only thing buoyant in this country is the evidence.

2. Zaldy’s Blockbuster Confessionals: Whistleblower or World-Class Damage Control?

From a secret location (rumored to be Canada), former Ako Bicol Party-List Representative Elizaldy Co dropped a video series that would make Netflix beg for streaming rights:

  • ₱100 billion in budget insertions for ghost flood-control projects
  • ₱25 billion allegedly delivered in cash suitcases to the President
  • ₱56 billion split between Marcos and Romualdez
  • Death threats, including Romualdez allegedly saying “Paputukan kita” in March 2025

Dramatic? Absolutely. Believable? Let’s interrogate:

  • Why did the “conscience attack” only hit after his family’s Sunwest Group was exposed for ₱38 billion in questionable contracts and his assets were frozen?
  • Real whistleblowers fly home and face the Senate under oath. They don’t upload moody 4K confessionals from a condo with ocean views.
  • ₱25 billion in cash = roughly 500 large suitcases. Did Cebu Pacific have a special “corruption cargo” fare?

This isn’t whistleblowing. This is a man torching the entire building so someone, anyone, will throw him a rope.

3. The Real Heist: ₱118.5 Billion in “Ghost” Flood Projects While Children Drown

Forget the soap-opera characters for a second. Commission on Audit (COA) reports and Senate investigations have already confirmed ₱118.5 billion in flood-control projects from 2023–2025 were either nonexistent, substandard, or catastrophically overpriced. Pumps that don’t pump. Dikes that exist only on PowerPoint. Rivers “dredged” by politicians’ dummies. While families in Cainta and Malabon wade through neck-deep water, someone is registering new Lamborghinis under their drivers’ names. This isn’t one scandal. This is the operating system.

4. Four Ways This Tragedy Ends (Place Your Bets)

  1. Paper trail leads to the top → resignations, arrests, maybe People Power 3.0
  2. Mid-level fall guys jailed, big fish rebrand as “reformers” by 2028
  3. Co’s videos exposed as scripted fiction → he becomes the sole scapegoat, administration declares victory
  4. Most likely: 87 Senate hearings, 12,000 viral soundbites, zero convictions. We forget by the next typhoon.

5. No More Circus – My Non-Negotiable Demand

Enough. We demand the following within 30 days, or we admit the Republic is dead:

  • A genuinely independent special prosecutor appointed by the Supreme Court en banc — not by Malacañang
  • Immediate public release of the complete 2025 General Appropriations Act (GAA) bicameral conference records — every insertion, author, and timestamp
  • Full third-party forensic audit (Singaporean or Swiss firm, no local cronies) of every project Co named
  • Unredacted bank records, Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) reports, and Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALNs) of all accused officials
  • Safe passage and real witness protection for Co if he returns within 60 days with documents and testifies under oath

No more “patsy” excuses. No more suitcase fan-fiction. No more children dying because flood money became somebody’s yacht fund. Follow the money. Jail them all. Or hang the “For Sale” sign on this country once and for all.

– Louis ‘Barok‘ Biraogo

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