It was so wrong to sit Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa at the same table with US President Barack Obama during the state dinner Malacañang hosted last April 28 in honor of the latter.
Actually, it is simply wrong for President Aquino to keep Ochoa as his executive secretary. But the President keeps him because Ochoa is his close friend, one of his KKKs (kaibigan, kaklase, kabarilan), never mind that Ochoa has been linked to the alleged pork barrel scam mastermind, Janet Lim Napoles.
The link between Ochoa and Napoles is there for all to see: Ochoa’s law firm which represented Napoles in her “heyday.” Which is a subject of a lot of talk and triggered suspicions that this could explain why President Aquino himself escorted Napoles to Camp Crame after she surrendered.
—JOE GELLAR,
middlenameross8@gmail.com