It is a funny thing but totally a serious topic.
The Philippine Government is being drag and link with greedy politician and corruption controversy in which it gave birth to a new book entitled, "Corruptionary".
Corruptionary is compilation of corruption-related words and their definitions.
The corruption-related words were compiled by Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), with the help of UP student researchers, from various sources mostly government agencies, police and the National Bureau of Investigation, courts, businessmen, media, as well as studies on corruption.
The dictionary of corruption words shows the extent and depth of corruption infesting the government, business and other sectors that reached its boiling point with the exposé of Rodolfo Noel Lozada on alleged kickbacks in the ZTE deal and other projects.
Lozada said "moderate the greed" and other corruption-related words that are part of the Filipino-English dictionary today will only cease notoriety if its source – corruption – is eliminated.
Some of the words in the book are: gapang, another term referring to illegal operation; ghost meeting, fake meetings intended only to steal from office budget; gobya, another term for bribe money; pangangahoy, stealing parts of government-issued vehicle and other equipment; panyakaw ng empleyado, government employee preoccupied with activities other than his job; and tengga, delaying a transaction to collect more grease money.
photo courtesy of sarah
sources: CenPEG & GMA
The Philippine Government is being drag and link with greedy politician and corruption controversy in which it gave birth to a new book entitled, "Corruptionary".
Corruptionary is compilation of corruption-related words and their definitions.
The corruption-related words were compiled by Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG), with the help of UP student researchers, from various sources mostly government agencies, police and the National Bureau of Investigation, courts, businessmen, media, as well as studies on corruption.
The dictionary of corruption words shows the extent and depth of corruption infesting the government, business and other sectors that reached its boiling point with the exposé of Rodolfo Noel Lozada on alleged kickbacks in the ZTE deal and other projects.
Lozada said "moderate the greed" and other corruption-related words that are part of the Filipino-English dictionary today will only cease notoriety if its source – corruption – is eliminated.
Some of the words in the book are: gapang, another term referring to illegal operation; ghost meeting, fake meetings intended only to steal from office budget; gobya, another term for bribe money; pangangahoy, stealing parts of government-issued vehicle and other equipment; panyakaw ng empleyado, government employee preoccupied with activities other than his job; and tengga, delaying a transaction to collect more grease money.
photo courtesy of sarah
sources: CenPEG & GMA
