FOR Blue Ribbon committee chairman T.J. Guingona to salvage a measure of credibility … the inquiry into the Malampaya Fund scam is necessary. If public and not party interest is to be served, the misuse of the fund generated from government royalties out of the lucrative natural gas project … should have had priority similar to the investigation into the Priority Development Assistance Fund ... anomaly.

…[I]f the Senate really wants to go deep into the root of corrupt practices in government, the investigation should be pursued to its conclusion and not halted midway to selectively condemn chosen personalities. Suspicions abound that the Malampaya Fund’s misuse will involve key personalities of the administration of [President] Noynoy which may reach all the way to the doors of Noynoy at Malacañang, which is the reason for the foot dragging of Guingona in holding a probe on it. In one of the Senate hearings, economic officials of Noynoy admitted that the collections from the Malampaya royalties that reached P130 billion was being used as a general fund and juggled at will. ... — (May 5)