SET aside politics and serve the people.

This was the message of St. Paul University-Manila to government officials as it decried the “culture of corruption” that is prevalent in the country.

“We at St. Paul University-Manila community – Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, lay administrators and staff, Senior High School, College, and Graduate School Students, alumni and parents – have come to realize that the time to speak is NOW,” it said in a statement.

The school expressed hope that its open criticism will remind officials of their duties to the people.

“It is time to raise our voices as one against the culture of corruption that has engulfed our hapless country and laid waste its God-given human and natural resources; against our leaders’ conscious forgetfulness of the obligation to look after the welfare of everyone most especially of those who do not have the capacity to help and defend themselves; against the cloak of apathy with which the vast majority blind themselves to the breakdown and decay of common decency and not uncommon moral values,” the school said.

It commended the Senate for holding an investigation into the questionable use of funds intended to address the Covid19 pandemic.