Opinion by Edmayelle Alforja

Napoles, Special Treatment!

Editorial

Edmayelle V. Alforja

VI- Diamond

September 1, 2013

Napoles, Special Treatment!

   On Wednesday morning, President Aquino had offered a P10-m bounty for information leading to the arrest of Napoles and her brother Reynald Lim. Janet Lim-Napoles has surrendered to President Aquino on August 28, Wednesday, 9:37pm. The Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda said.

   Well, as you can see, Napoles surprised the whole nation. After hiding for over 2 weeks, she suddenly surrendered. Not just to any law officer but to the highest official of the land, President Aquino. We all thought that Napoles will never be caught. But she was the one who surrendered. Many people were angry for what she did, we are all affected. The money she stole was for the projects of the government that she spent for her own. She even alleged it with the other Congressmen, Senators and Law officers. But why is it that the person who did the hocus focus of the P10 billion pork barrel still get a special treatment. The scam mastermind was transported to Sta. Rosa Laguna from Makati City Jail this morning.

   Her place in Laguna was the same bungalow formerly occupied by Pres. Estrada. A 25- sq meter room has two rooms one for the detainee and the other one is for the guards. It has basic amenities such as bathroom, a double steel framed bed and a refrigerator for her medicine. Roxas said that there is no VIP treatment but we recognize that she was not an ordinary accused. Yah! Right that’s it She’s not ordinary because she was allegedly stole billions of money. And still deserve a better treatment. Don’t you think that’s unfair? Well, Roxas said that he was only following the court’s order to transfer Napoles to the facility. We just hope that the decision made were of help for the investigation of that pork barrel scam.