The Philippines has many laws that are either conveniently forgotten or blatantly disregarded. Sadly, the country never runs short of lawmakers breaking its laws either unwittingly or deliberately.

The three senators -- Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, and Bong Revilla -- embroiled in the multi-billion peso Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) scam and are awaiting arrest warrant from the Sandiganbayan following their indictment last Friday have separately denied the accusations that they pocketed a few hundred million pesos in kickbacks by diverting their pork barrel allocations to bogus foundations from 2004 to 2012 in spite of testimonial and documentary evidence that have so far come out.

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