Cabral’s Pizza Party Secrets: The P3.5T Drip-Feed That Fed the Dynasties

Dynasty Feast: How P3.5T Got Sliced Thicker for Bailiwicks While Guards Got Leftovers

By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 27, 2025

WRAP your mind around this: P3.5 trillion. It’s not just a number in the government’s ledger. These are the schools that were never built. These are the bridges that collapsed, leaving bodies beneath. These are the pothole-riddled roads that make it hard for farmers to bring their produce to market. These are the hospitals without equipment, while children die from simple fevers. P130,000 per Filipino family—stolen from your pockets, from your children’s future. And who has the audacity to smile while doing this? The entire pork barrel machinery reborn in the form of “allocables” and “insertions.”

**“Our special topping? 40 % kickback—so good it’ll make roads disappear!”**

Leviste’s Kabuki Theater

Rep. Leandro Leviste, the young Batangueño who suddenly became a crusader. His Facebook posts are perfectly timed. First drip: 2025 allocations. Second: summary from 2023 to 2026. Now, districts with billions—Ilocos Norte 1st District, P42 billion; Abra lone district, P41 billion; Albay 2nd, P44 billion. And BARMM? Just P28 billion for the entire region. The pattern is clear: the bailiwicks of the powerful are being fed.

But wait, why the drip-feed? Why not everything at once? If you’re a true hero, Congressman, why does this seem like political jujitsu? Like a masterclass in building leverage while pretending to be transparent. I give you credit for the sunlight you’ve brought—now we know where the money goes. But I crucify you for the selectivity. If you have a “proponent list” with names of Cabinet secretaries, senators, and private individuals, why wait until Christmas to release summaries? Opportunist, strategist, or true reformer? Don’t fool us.

And that feud of yours with Rep. Terry Ridon? All talk. You accuse him of insertions in the 2025 budget crafted in 2024, when he wasn’t even in Congress yet. Yet you have the “Cabral files” since September. Release everything, or just shut up.

The Rotten System of “Allocables” and “Insertions”

Leviste is not the enemy here. Nor is Cabral. The real monster is the system—legalized larceny called “allocables.” Every congressman, minimum P150 million. Party-lists too. Then “outside allocables”—insertions from the House, Senate, Bicam, NEP, and executive officials. The 2025 DPWH budget reached P1 trillion because of this. Only P401 billion “allocable” to districts; the rest from other proponents.

The allocations are absurd. Why Central Luzon P407 billion, while BARMM just P28 billion? Why Occidental Mindoro lone district P43 billion, while the entire BARMM doesn’t reach that? This is dynasties and bailiwicks. “Allocables” is a euphemism—pork barrel in new skin. The DPWH is just silent. Secretary Vince Dizon, even praised by Leviste for “transparency,” but why don’t they release it themselves? Why all this drama?

The Ghost of Usec Catalina Cabral

And Cathy Cabral? The woman at the center of it all, suddenly fell into a ravine in Benguet. Blunt trauma, no foul play, according to the autopsy. Said to be suicide. But why suddenly alone on Kennon Road? Why no full investigation immediately? Why a security log saying Leviste carried only pizza on September 4, not documents?

Her shadow now haunts every claim. She was the keeper of secrets—the list of true proponents, allegedly including Cabinet execs and private individuals. Now she’s gone, her files reportedly with the Ombudsman. But her question from the grave: Who really benefited? Who was afraid she would speak? Her death, a symbol of a system ready to swallow witnesses.

The Truth Spares No One

To Leviste: Thanks for the data. But why selective? If you’re a hero, full release immediately. No drip-feed.
To the Palace: It’s all “hearsay” until authenticated by DPWH. The most effective way to kill hearsay? Full transparency. But you refuse. Why? Afraid the names of Cabinet secretaries will come out? Just gossip, they say. But if it’s just gossip, why has DPWH turned over all of Cabral’s computers and files to the Ombudsman?
To DPWH: You’re silent. Why don’t you verify and release it? Why does it take a neophyte congressman to do your job?
To the implicated lawmakers: Look at your districts. Billions. Explain to your constituents why infrastructure is still crumbling while you’re getting rich.

The Greatest Tragedy: This Has Become Normal

The worst effect? We’ve accepted it. Corruption is normal. Ghost projects, overpriced roads, 15-40% kickbacks are normal. Perpetuated poverty, lost trust are normal. Grand-scale crime pays—as long as there are dynasties and bailiwicks.

But this is not normal. This is P3.5 trillion. P130,000 per family. This is a debt owed to us.

What We Must Do—Now

Independent, international forensic audit of the entire DPWH budget from 2023-2026. Not just local—must include foreign experts so no one escapes.
Immediate, full public release of all Cabral files and proponent lists—by a neutral third party, not DPWH or Congress.
Abolish all discretionary congressional insertions. Needs-based funding only—based on data, not political connections.
To the media: Map these numbers to reality. Visit the districts with billions—is there new roads? Or just ghost projects?
To Filipinos: This is the debt owed to you. P130,000 per family. Demand it back. Don’t sleep on this issue. Your silence empowers them.

As long as there are “allocables,” there are stolen futures. Time to end it. Not in the next election. Now.