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The situation Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III has found himself in the pork barrel issue after he declared that this would be abolished—but not yet, not this year anyway—is quite like being in between a rock and a hard place. Add to this the surrender of the very person in the center of the scam to himself—and now he also has to fend of accusations of special treatment after the President himself escorted Janet Lim-Napoles to Camp Crame where she was initially detained.

His subsequent orders to Interior and Local Government Sec. Manuel A. Roxas II to secure Napoles brought the “special treatment” issue to a new level as Napoles was transferred to an air-conditioned office at the Makati City Jail before she was ultimately transferred to the police’s Special Action Force training grounds in Sta. Rosa, Laguna—in a bungalow that was used to detain former Pres. Joseph Estrada, former Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao Gov. Nur Misuari and Sen. Gregorio Honosan among others.

Make no bones about it, Napoles is at the center of the pork barrel scam and if we want to know the whole truth of the matter, she should be kept alive. It is a source of wonder however why the Department of Justice or the Interagency Anti-Graft Coordinating Council has started interviewing Napoles on her participation on the pork barrel scam. All the people seem to be fuzzing about is her blood sugar level and blood pressure—as well as the condition of the bungalow where she is being detained.

Napoles is now secured. Investigators from the IAGCC should now start talking to her. All that they need to know about the scam can be obtained from Napoles and if they are really serious in getting to the truth of the matter they should start moving on her now.

The President has created the council. He should now prod them to do what they have been created to do. And with the person in the center of the devious scheme now in government hands, they should not have any more obstacles in untangling the proverbial Gordian knot that is the pork barrel scam.
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