As the pork barrel saga continues, The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow

Many people expressed relief that the so-called list and confession of alleged pork scam queen Janet Lim Napoles which former Senator Panfilo Lacson got from the husband and relatives of Napoles have been turned over to the Senate after days of questionable delays. Moreover, the same have been made public. The list included some 100 senators, former senators, congressmen and former congressmen and government officials who had allegedly benefited in the millions of pesos of public funds from the scam. Also included are private individuals who allegedly served as “agents” in the transactions and earned also commissions in millions of pesos in the process.
It is not surprising that many senators and congressmen who are staunch allies of President Benigno S. Aquino III, including two Cabinet members, are included in the list. What is surprising is the apparent attempt to cover up on many personalities involved in the scam because suddenly, while they were revealed to the media earlier, they are nowhere to be found from the list turned over by Lacson who had vowed not to sanitize the list. Then two other lists are surfacing, one from whistleblower Benhur Luy and another from another whistleblower on another scam in the past, Sandra Cam, clearly trying to muddle the issue. Earlier on, many officials questioned the apparent turnabout of Napoles who now wants to tell all that she knows about the scandal, when she is the most authoritative person as far as how the scam operated and who have benefitted in Congress, the Executive Office and possibly even from the judiciary.  
To erase doubts on the investigation of the scandal and apparent cover up, Buhay party-list Rep. Jose L. Atienza Jr. proposed the creation of a no-nonsense commission to conduct an investigation into the scam and how all the pork barrel of the Senators and congressmen have been spent in the past administrations and the present administration. The people, indeed, must know the truth about how P25 billion of pork barrel funds of members of Congress each year are spent because it is money coming from the taxpayers. This is not to mention the bigger pork barrel fund of the Office of the President which reportedly amounts to more than P1 trillion of the P2.6 trillion budget of the national government. This proposed truth commission should answer the basic question – Are the people’s’ money wisely spent for the benefit of the people? If the answer is no, perhaps, there is sense to remove them altogether, or better still, as many want it, abolish Congress. It is this massive corruption that led to the downfall of the Marcos regime. If the people will not be vigilant, history may yet repeat itself.