In a press statement, this was the query posed by senatorial candidate Rep. Ernesto Herrera a month after the Makati police claimed that they had charged Ryan Joseph and his wife Bernadette with possession of illegal drugs before the city prosecutor’s office.
"The public has a right to know whether or not the prosecutor’s office has filed a case in court against the senator’s son and his wife," Herrera, former chair of the Senate special committee on illegal drugs during his stint as a senator before running for congressman, pointed out.
"If no criminal case was filed in court, then the authorities should say so. It would be unfair to all concerned, including the senator, his son and the wife, for the case to be left unresolved in the eyes of the public," Herrera, also chair of the Citizens’ Drug Watch Foundation, added.
When the young Jaworski and his wife allegedly tried to buy a sachet of shabu from Michael Calimbahin on March 19, they were not aware that the suspected drug pusher was already under police surveillance.
Agents of the Makati police Drug Enforcement Unit immediately pounced on Calimbahin while he was in the act of allegedly selling 2.5 grams of shabu worth P5,000 to Ryan Joseph.
When accosted by the police, Ryan Joseph introduced himself as Senator Jaworski’s son, surrendered the sachet of shabu to the officers, handed out a Senate calling card, and then sped away in his Ford F-150 truck before the officers could say or do anything.
Ryan Joseph allegedly almost ran over one of the officers as he and his wife fled the scene.
Herrera, a senatorial candidate of the People Power Coalition, earlier urged Senator Jaworski to submit his son to a voluntary drug test to establish whether or not he was using illicit substances.
Senator Jaworski has said he would not condone any wrongdoing of his son.