Why do we keep on punishing the innocent?

When the supposed leakage in the June 2006 nursing board exams leaked to the press, the immediate reaction was for a retake of the exams. The investigations had not even began by then, and yet some people (who are not even in the nursing profession) were calling for a retake.

Well, now these people have succeeded. Nurses who passed the June 2006 exams have to retake if they want to get VisaScreens.

Buried deep by the CGFNS decision and the futile US junket of Congressman Monico Puentevella et al is the root of this scandal. Was there really a proof of leakage? Who made the leak? Who benefited from the leak? Are these people charged in court?

Two members of the Board of Nursing are charged by Ombudsman (after almost six months) only now. That slow office is set to start investigating private individuals involved in the leakage.

The justice system on this country is really slow. The innocents are already punished (and being punished), but the guilty are still being investigated.

For those who advocated retakes: the Supreme Court does not allow retakes in bar exams when leakages occur. What the Court do is to invalidate the section where there was leakage and punish the guilty. Take the 2004 bar exams for example.

The concept of honor and command responsibility is really alien to this administration. In other parts of the world, head would have rolled and resignations would have been tendered. Here, we punish the innocent.