NOT a few have wondered why so much time and resources are being spent by the Senate committee of Senator Risa Hontiveros and Congress’ Quad Committee on the activities and identity of the former Bamban mayor, Alice Guo, whom they tag as the principal character behind the illegal activities of POGO operators.

Both committees are probing Alice Guo, to legislate a law to justify the implementation of Pagcor’s new scheme ‘Internet Gaming License’ (IGL) to replace POGO without the need to probe local protection racket by police and elected officials, the root of criminal activities.

To the unsuspecting public, the committee hearings are covering up for the criminal protection provided by elected local government and police officials because it can throw a monkey wrench at the IGL scheme. So using Alice Guo as a diversionary scheme is useful.

We note that neither the provincial governor of Tarlac and Pampanga, the mayor of Porac, nor the provincial police directors and police chiefs of Bamban in Tarlac and Porac in Pampanga were never invited as resource persons in those hearings “in aid of legislation”.

This is highly unusual because it is public knowledge that no major illegal or llegal activity in any town or city can operate without the knowledge of these officials.

Curiously, not even DILG Sec. Benhur Abalos or DOJ Sec. Jesus Remulla dared to call out the two governors, police provincial and town chiefs and Porac mayor to submit reports on these discovered POGO hubs in their areas. They are not being made to account for anything.
Involvement of Alice Guo is no longer relevant to the probe in question since as a foreigner, she should have been simply deported earlier, like the other alien employees of the two hubs. Probing how she and her siblings flew out of the country undetected can only point to the failed enforcement of laws in the country.

The two committees are clearly diverting attention away from the accountability of the governors, police officials, the mayor who should be the primary “persons of interest” in the ongoing probe because, unknown to many, there are already 35 IGL operators.

And, 2025 election is just months away?

Sen. Hontiveros and the four chairmen of the Quad Committee are pulling the wool over the public’s eyes by refusing to make local officials accountable.

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