An estimated 2,500 people joined the run for accountability against corruption at the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD) campus on the morning of September 7. The UPD University Student Council, UPD College of Science Student Council (CSC), and UP Run Club organized the activity.

The organizers said the event showed their collective strength and opposition to corruption. It follows the successive exposure of anomalies and corruption in flood control projects under the Marcos regime, in collusion with contractors and other bureaucrat capitalists.

Participants wore stickers on their clothes, carried slogans, and waved flags during the activity. According to the UPD CSC, the attendance of hundreds of Filipinos proved that unless the Marcos regime holds the guilty accountable, then the people themselves will pursue and mete justice.

The council added that the fun run is linked to a series of activities that they and other groups expect to launch in the coming weeks to demand accountability. “We will not stop demanding until everything rightfully ours is returned and those guilty are held to account,” it said.

From 2022 to 2025, the former Duterte regime and now the Marcos regime allotted ₱680.2 billion for flood control projects that the people do not benefit from. For 2026, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Marcos regime kept the same budget allocation for flood control, which will inevitably enrich bureaucrat capitalists’ pockets.

In recent days, groups under Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) launched successive protest actions to confront the regime and demand accountability from those involved in widespread corruption in the country. The group announced that it would stage more demonstrations in the coming days, expected to culminate in the commemoration of dictator Marcos Sr’s declaration of martial law.