After linking his son, former congressman and now city councilor Adam Relson Jala, to a multi-million peso pork barrel scam, the father, Eladio “Boy” Jala, former Bohol Third District representative, is now hot water after the latter's name has been dragged in another agriculture fund scandal. In a report by ABS-CBN, two former officials of the now-defunct agency have linked E. Jala to “questionable non-government organizations that pocketed funds from the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) program of the Arroyo administration.” The revelation is found in the sworn statement of Rhodora Mendoza, who has exposed the multi-billion peso scandal, which also linked former agriculture secretary and now Bohol Third District Rep. Art Yap, as the alleged mastermind in the National Agribusiness Corporation (NABCOR) scandal. Yap has earlier denied his involvement in the NABCOR scam. The son Jala has also denied pocketing funds from his pork barrel allocations.

The father Jala, in a statement issued to ABS-CBN, has said: “I have to be guided by the document first before I could categorically confirm if that was my signature, if I made the document myself.” Senators Bong Revilla, Ralph Recto, Juan Ponce Enrile, Lito Lapid, and Jinggoy Estrada, including several other congressmen during the Arroyo administration, have also been linked to the NABCOR scam. In pocketing funds from their pork barrel budget, elected officials had allegedly endorsed “non-existent or imaginary” agriculture-related projects implemented by bogus non-government organizations (NGOs) through a dubious project scheme that has doomed the future of the country.