Several whistleblowers and two lawmakers on Sunday added their voices to those objecting to the admission into the Witness Protection Program (WPP) of businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam. Some of the whistleblowers in the pork barrel racket, according to their lawyer, were “alarmed” by the decision of Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II to grant provisional state protection to Napoles. He said Sula, Briones and Baltazar were worried that Napoles’ possible testimony would lead to the dismissal of the pork barrel scam cases. Not most guiltyOn Sunday, a lawyer of Napoles, Stephen David, said his client was not the “most guilty” party in the pork barrel scam and was thus entitled to become a state witness. “This is why she was never considered a state witness by the Aquino administration,” De Lima said on Saturday from Camp Crame, where she is detained on drug trafficking charges.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 18, 2018 23:15 UTC