By Aileen Lor
The Senate Women, Children, Family Relations, and Gender Equality Committee will hold an executive session with representatives from the executive department and intelligence agencies to further investigate the involvement of Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo in the raided Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) hub in town.
Senator Risa Hontiveros, the panel chairperson, told Unang Balita on Monday that the executive session will take place before the third public hearing while the 19th Congress’s second regular session is in adjournment sine die.
Hontiveros said that there are executive departments and agencies, together with inter agencies who would want to be part of the committee but could not divulge yet in an open hearing.
She also thinks that in the executive session, more information will come out and maybe establish Guyo’s connection with POGO, unexplained wealth, and criminal connections.
Hontiveros, moreover, said that Guo may be invited to participate or not, but she prefers Guo to be invited stating that resource persons should be limited.
