CRIMINAL DISPLAY OF OPPULENCE

By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing, Rome, Wednesday 01.08.2013

Janet Lim Napoles

There are legitimate, worthy NGOs that must be differentiated from the bogus ones when videos and screen grabs of the lavish lifestyle of one Jeane Napoles make the rounds of social media and stir anger across all sectors of society? The Napoles family’s exhibitionism of their wealth, whether or not they are under scrutiny for the plunder of public money. Of course, now that their mother Janet Lim-Napoles is involved in the P10B scam it becomes an insult to the people. No amount of explaination from her could erase its criminality. The mother, Janet Lim-Napoles, the woman allegedly at the heart of the pork barrel scam where at least P10 billion in Priority Development Assistance Fund have been diverted to nonexistent NGOs.


To make matters worse, one of the sisters, Jo Christine Napoles was slated by the OFW Family Club Partylist who won two congressional seats in the last partylist election, as second nominee. Nobody, but nobody could accept her, least of all the long suffering OFW as their representative. OFWs has billions of funds stashed in OWWA which has been allegedly targeted by corrupt officials.


An investigation into the allegations against Napoles and the lawmakers who are supposed to be on partying terms with her is expected to be commenced soon, but this is not expected to bring us any closer to the entire truth about what really goes on in the pork barrel system. After all, the same lawmakers are the ones privy to the system, and it is our guess that they will not willingly detail how exactly they spend the millions placed under their discretion every year.


The people by now is in open warpath against the PDAF. Pork barrel must be abolished immediately and completely. In the meantime, we can only entertain ourselves with the tasteless pursuits of the new rich the likes of Napoles and grit our teeth in anger at this young woman’s gall to bare her material conquests for which she never worked.

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