Philippine president urged to impeach allies involved in corruption

After the explosion of Pork Barrel Scam, series of anomaly are unfolded to the masses. Activists are now protesting to the Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to prosecute all the officials involved including some of his allies who stole the state fund allotted to its people.

Corruption has been present in the government system for how many years but it is only now that the masses became aware of how much money those officials kept inside their pocket. No wonder why poverty continues to exist all throughout the states even they convinced the people of its growing economy.

The mob of protesters marched to the Malacañang Palace with all their kerosene torches. Along the way they were stopped by riot police who didn’t allow them to continue.

A plunder case has been raised against three senators from the opposition and a number of associates are involved after they received a hundred of millions of pesos or million dollar kickback from Napoles who said to a businesswoman.  

Senators involved are Jinggoy Estrada, Ramon Revilla Jr. and former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile who all denied the charges saying they have no any participation in the scam. If found guilty of Plunder, they will suffer a maximum sentence of life imprisonment and this is non-bailable. So far, no arrest warrants has been released by the anti-graft court.

Former left-wing Congressman Teddy Casino said that charging the three of the senators is not enough because what they want is to hold everyone involved accountable. The trials has been too slow especially that everyone is denying all the accusation that leads to a dramatic yet funny image of the senators.

Another issue arises after Renato Reyes who is the secretary general of the left-wing New Patriotic Alliance said that Aquino is the one who protects his allies that linked to the scam.

Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and Agriculure Secretary Proceso Alcala are also linked to the scam but immediately denied all its transaction with Janet Napoles. Supporters of Abad say he is one of the president's closest allies and the strongest supporter of his anti-corruption reform program.

A lot of names are involved in the issue of corruption but until now no one has been granted a plunder case. Will this case end up with the same story of corruption in the past where no one is punished or found guilty? What kind of government we have? What will happen to us now?