Aquino: Napoles not fit to be state witness

President Benigno Aquino said the woman in the center of the latest corruption scandal, Janet Napoles, is not fit to become a state witness. Aquino said Napoles does not meet one requirement to be a state witness: that she must not be the most guilty in the scam, where lawmakers diverted public funds to her fake NGOs. The President noted, “She is the common connection of all. How are we going to say she is ‘not the most guilty’ if she is at the center of it all?” The justice department is still vetting Napoles’ statements after she volunteered information and offered a list of names of people who allegedly benefitted from the scam. There are at least 3 lists circulating, all supposedly from her, but they don’t match. Aquino said some people may be intentionally muddling the issue and changing names in the lists to “bring the whole house down” and make it appear that everyone is guilty.

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