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The "joc" (joke) is on us
Finally, after two years of waiting, the alleged so-called mastermind of the fertilizer scam, Jocelyn "Joc-joc" Bolante is already here. Hmm... after two long years?!
We'll most of us are expecting positive results to this news. At long last! Everybody is expecting something out of Joc-joc's mouth to spill shall we say some of the beans (if not yet rotten, though) with regard to the very controversial million peso fertilizer issue.
It took him two years to finally decide to speak the truth, to confess what he knew and to be ready to face the jury. He has already that stained credibility on this matter after exiling himself to the land of the Joes. Coming back to the Philippines perhaps is the best way for him to regain back the trust of the Filipinos. But, we can't deny the fact that a lot of us would question on what guarantee do we have with this person committing grave offense to his country and fellowmen?
Joc-joc escaped, and now, he's here and we're expecting him to tell the truth?
Let's admit, we need this man to tell the "good story" and to give him a chance to justify himself on the accusations thrown upon him. I think, it would be better for us to coin a win-win solution on the fertilizer scam. With his presence now, let's think in a different angle, in the positive point of view. What do you think?
However, this time, let us give him the floor to be cross-examined, authenticate his version, and be bombarded with a lot of questions that he should think about while he was out of the country for some time. Two years of waiting is long enough. And mind you my dear readers, guilt feelings wear-off over time and that for sure is what's happening to him right now. We should be more vigilant, more interested, more concerned and more persistent not to spoil the two long years of waiting without letting him speak out while the guilt feelings might still be there. In that way, it will give us the truth that we've always wanted to know since then.
Strike while the iron is hot. So now, however you strike the guy, there's no way you can mold him to what you want because he's now "too tough" for any possible "strike". The process of investigation lies in the hands of our senators. They can grill him by all means they know; stress him out, let all the butterflies fly out of his stomach, turn him backwards and inside out and hang him by a pole for all he cares until he tells the truth. Yeah, that's the only way to let him realize how the Filipinos are too eager to know what was really the real score in the P728 million fertilizer scam in 2004.
Let us not allow him or anyone this time to delay the sought-after-investigation on this matter, even in the sacrifice of his dramatic "illness" so they say. Or yet, the joc (joke) is on us.