According to news agency AFP, on the 21st local time, tens of thousands of Filipino people gathered in Manila Brake Park to protest the corruption scandal involving the false flood prevention project, which isly caused the country's taxpayers to lose billions of dollars.

According to AFP, the anger of the people of the Philippines over the flood prevention infrastructure funding scandal has increased, and about 13,000 people are expected to gather in Rihanna Park on the morning of the 21st. Care professional student Ali Verahmosa, 23, said, ¡°I¡¯ve been through floods many times. Since there is funding for ¡®ghost¡¯ projects, why does the health department not have a budget?¡± she condemned the behavior of stealing public funds as ¡°shameful.¡±

As a precautionary measure, the Philippine military has announced a state of "red alert." Additionally, more protesters are expected to march along EDAA Avenue later in the year, while the scandal has triggered a staff shock in the Philippine Congress, with House Speaker Romualdes announcing his resignation on September 17 for involvement in the scandal, and a construction company accusing 30 members of the House of Representatives and public works and roads officials of receiving cash refunds earlier this month.

The Ministry of Finance estimates that corruption in flood prevention engineering between 2023 and 2025 has caused economic losses of up to 11,8 billion pesos (about $2 billion), and some estimates are that the actual amount is close to $18 billion, according to the report, the Philippines has been frequent in public funding scandals for a long time, but senior officials involved are seldom imprisoned.