Why President Aquino handed Janet Napoles to the PNP and not to the NBI?

On August 28, 2013 at about 9PM Janet Napoles surrendered directly to Pres. Aquino. In turn, the president escorted the latter to the PNP. The NBI, who was the lead agency tasked with finding and capturing Janet Napoles was caught flabbergasted by the events. It was clear that the agency not only failed  to find and capture Napoles, it was not even handed the benefit of her surrender. A tacit way of saying, "you suck!"

Of course, the president in an Inquirer report indicated that the task force organized to capture Napoles could not be expected to handle everything, adding further that the agency was stretched thin. I think President Aquino was just being nice. What he was really saying is that the NBI is not only incompetent and corrupt, it was also peopled by people who most likely tipped off Napoles herself. Janet Napoles on the other hand has always maintained that she does not trust the NBI. This is fair considering that the witnesses against Napoles' shenanigans are in the protection and custody of the NBI. However, for an agency whose expertise is supposedly finding people, especially if the people it is trying to find is hiding only in Metro Manila, and that it still could not find the same, speaks of the agency's rotten culture and administration. It is more filthy than any poorly maintained back of the street public restroom!

The NBI's legendary incompetence is only matched by its consistent failure to actually perform the task it was supposedly created to do - finding fugitives! In addition, it is also tasked with gathering intelligence that are a threat to public safety, order and peace not to mention information that presents an existential threat to the Republic of the Philippines. If the NBI cannot even track a known fugitive, IN MANILA no less! Then how the heck can it be credibly counted upon to gather intelligence concerning more critical information, information upon which the very survival of our democracy, however flawed it may be, depends?

President Aquino should purge the agency of charlatans pretending to be conducting public service. It is an agency, like the Bureau of Customs, the DILG and even in fact the PNP, ruled by mafiosi bosses, much like the Congress of the Philippines is.

No wonder the Philippines is reeling from a chronic cycle of poverty and more poverty!