Isn’t P-Noy the country’s Top Cop?

By Al S. Mendoza

 

WHAT is next after the surrender of Janet Lim-Napoles?

I direct that question to President Aquino.

Mr. Aquino had yet to make himself clear on the issue of the pork barrel scam when, all too suddenly like an earthquake, Napoles gave herself up.

Or has the President already made up his mind:  The pork barrel fund is here to stay?

All indications point to that.  Which is odd, if not downright sad.

First, he said he would never scrap it.

Then, when the people set a “Million People March” on Aug. 26 at the Rizal Park in Luneta, he said on nationwide TV on Aug. 23:  “It is now time to abolish the PDAF.”

You all know the PDAF as Priority Development Assistance Fund, the President’s budget for distribution to senators and congressmen for the uplift of the people.

Also known as the pork barrel fund, the President’s PDAF runs into billions of pesos yearly.  For 2014, it is P25.2 billion, excluding his SPF (Special Purpose Fund) of nearly P460 billion!

The PDAF’s mechanism was virtually unknown to the people until Ben Hur Luy exposed a P10-billion scam allegedly perpetrated by Janet Lim-Napoles, and which had enriched all the more several of our senators and congressmen, not to exclude government officials as accomplices.

Luy was the former chief of staff of Napoles.

Luy blew the whistle on Napoles after he was rescued by the National Bureau of Investigation from a Napoles-instigated four-month detention at one of the reported 30 houses of Napoles.

Napoles has denied Luy’s accusation, issuing a counter-charge that Luy had robbed her of P300,000.

Aided by the NBI and Justice Secretary Leila de Lima herself, Luy, while under protective custody of the NBI, filed illegal detention charges against Napoles.

When Napoles got wind of an arrest warrant issued against her, she vanished.

After 14 days, Napoles resurfaced, getting her wish to surrender no less to President Aquino – and in Malacanang at that.

Malacanang immediately drew flak for allowing Napoles, a suspected scammer, to step into Malacanang and, in effect, be given preferential treatment by the President.

All the answers of Interior Secretary Roxas and Press Secretary Lacierda in defense of Mr. Aquino’s action were all in vain.

Why, because Roxas and Lacierda, and all the bootlickers in the Palace, missed rattling off the basic answer:  Mr. Aquino, being the President of the Republic, is the Commander-in-Chief of the entire police and armed forces of the Philippines.

Thus, he is the country’s Top Cop!

And, by simple logic, Napoles, or anybody for that matter, can always surrender to him.

Simply put, Roxas, Lacierda and their kind goofed big-time.

No, I’m not about to join Mr. Aquino’s inner sanctum upon the urging of Sonny Cakampi.

Isn’t kabobohan contagious?

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