Support of Congressional Hearings Needed

The Filipino people should continue to support the on-going Congressional hearings to unearth the truth about corruption in the military. What began as a hearing on the plea bargaining agreement of Garcia has mushroomed into an expansive hearing on corruption in the military. In the height of these hearings, a former chief of the AFP, Angelo Reyes, who's possible involvement in the "pabaon" system in the military as exposed by a former employee in the comptroller's office of the AFP, was being unearthed by the Blue Ribbon commitee of the Senate, committed suicide in a cemetery where his mother is buried.
There must be serious repercussions on the testimony of Rabusa, the star witness presented by Senator Jinggoy Estrada. Why would this suicide occur except as an offshoot of the stress and the pressure brought about by the investigation on possible involvement of high-ranking military officers in the AFP in the misuse of funds for the military? The best step that every one should take in the light of this event is to slow down for about a week and then push through afterwards so that there will be a closure and the institution of the AFP will be protected and restored. Also, calls to abolish the PMA as an offshoot of this investigation should be shelved as it is counterproductive to abolish a military school that has produced able individuals who are leaders in peace time and in the battlefields to protect the country from security threats foreign and domestic.
The Filipino people should stand behind its Senators and Congressmen who are trying to find out the truth behind the mess in the military so that they will come up with needed legislations to reform the AFP and protect it as a well respected institution in Philippine society. The whistleblowers who continue to stand their ground despite "demolition jobs" of people who stand to lose in the investigation, should be supported by the entire Filipino people since these few individuals are the only links of the country to unearthing the truth about the misuse of public funds in the military.
As the saying goes, the truth will set us free.