This was according to Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, following Napoles’ supposed intention to “come clean” in the pork barrel scam case by becoming a state witness.
“My inclination is whether or not she will be a state witness, she should tell the truth,” Tagle said Thursday. “Do you need to be a state witness to tell the truth?”
He also said Napoles, who allegedly masterminded the systematic misuse of lawmakers’ pork barrel funds, should return the money that she supposedly got from the scam.
“Tell the truth and return the things that are not yours. It should be that way, right?” said Tagle, who joined last year’s Million People March, a large protest action that called for the abolition of the pork barrel system.
For his part, Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo urged the government to carefully study what will happen on the case once Napoles is turned into a state witness.
He also said Napoles, who bared her intention to come clean in a meeting with Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, “should be answerable on all the wrongdoings she committed.”
“The money should be returned,” Pabillo said. —KBK, GMA News
