Dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo on the resumption of the Senate listening to on Pogo hub on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Noy Morcoso/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines — 1-Rider party-list Rep. Ramon Rodrigo Gutierrez accused dismissed Bamban Mayor Alice Guo of mendacity about her age and childhood.
On the second half of the Home of Representatives quad committee listening to on Friday, Gutierrez revealed that Guo’s classmates at Grace Christian Faculty had been his school associates who had been born in 1991 or 1992. Guo has been claiming she was born in 1986.
The lawmaker confronted the ousted Tarlac city mayor with a category photograph that supposedly exhibits a younger Guo and requested her about it. However Guo declined to reply, invoking her proper in opposition to self-incrimination – which Gutierrez deemed as an indication that she was mendacity.
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“Though this is likely to be rumour for the committee, pero ako po personally I hope you’d perceive, ‘di po ako naniniwala sa story na kayo po ay sa Tarlac from (age) zero to 38. Ms. Guo, whereas ready for that po, you say you had been born in 1986, tama po ba?” Gutierrez stated. “That places you at, how outdated are you now po?”
(Though this is likely to be rumour for the committee, however I hope you’ll perceive that I don’t imagine the story that you’re from Tarlac from age zero to 38. Ms. Guo, whereas ready for that, you say you had been born in 1986, is that right?)
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“Sure po, Your Honor, 38,” Guo replied. “Your Honor, I hope you perceive, there are such a lot of instances filed in opposition to me earlier than the courts; that’s why something I’ll say right here is likely to be used in opposition to me po.”
“Properly I feel that’s why I tend to not imagine you, as a result of if that actually will not be you, I feel you’ll have stated that’s not you,” Gutierrez added.
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Class photograph
Gutierrez confirmed Guo the category photograph once more, and stated he knew among the individuals in that picture since her batchmates on the Grace Christian Faculty had been his school associates.
“Why do I not imagine that? I can determine two of the individuals behind you, magka-batch po tayo, Ms. Guo. I do know what yr this was taken, they usually have an outline of you — no’ng pumasok ka po sa Grace, napaka-thick po ng accent ninyo, Mandarin lang ang kaya niyong salitain, however you had been very pleasant and also you had been very makulit,” Gutierrez stated.
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(Why do I not imagine that? I can determine two of the individuals behind you; we’re of the identical batch, Ms. Guo. I do know what yr this was taken, they usually have an outline of you — while you entered Grace, you had a thick accent, and also you had been solely capable of communicate Mandarin, however you had been very pleasant and really playful.)
“That’s why they’d a tough time to overlook you though you stayed there as much as Grade 3 solely. Now I do know, like I stated, that’s rumour so far as the committee’s involved as a result of the one with private information will not be right here, however after I was speaking to that individual with private information, I used to be satisfied that they’ve recognized you,” he added.
Based on Gutierrez, if Guo is 38 years outdated now, that may make her 14 years outdated when the category photograph was taken. Nonetheless, this doesn’t appear to be the case, as Guo’s body seems much like different kids within the class image.
Guo Hua Ping
Gutierrez additionally famous that Guo’s classmates known as her Ping, which bears semblance to her Chinese language title as found by the Nationwide Bureau of Investigation, Guo Hua Ping.
“In truth, in case you are 38, and this image was [from] 2001, you’ll have been 13, 14 po ba? However you look the identical age right here — these individuals had been born ’91, ’92? You’re of the identical measurement, that’s why I don’t suppose you’re that a lot older than them and that’s why I don’t purchase that story that you simply had been born in 1986,” he famous.
“In truth, they known as you Ping; Ping po ‘yong nickname niyo dito,” he added.
Guo’s education historical past was one of many subjects mentioned within the preliminary parts of the Senate listening to on the raided Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) hub in Bamban city in Tarlac province, as senators had been skeptical of her private particulars.
Guo then claimed that she was homeschooled by a sure Trainer Rubilyn, who can now not be invited to the listening to as she died years in the past.
Nonetheless, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian revealed final July 10 that he and Guo attended the identical faculty, citing paperwork introduced to the Senate committee on ladies.
“We had been tipped off that apparently Guo Hua Ping or Alice Guo didn’t develop up on a farm. She was not homeschooled. She went to highschool, and I’ll present you the proof,” he stated.
“Since her actual title was revealed within the hearings, we discovered that she studied in the identical faculty as I did, Grace Christian Excessive Faculty. For Grades 1, 2, and three,” he added.
Pogo hub
Guo has maintained a number of occasions that she was not linked to the Pogo hub in Bamban. However the Division of the Inside and Native Authorities (DILG) accused her of getting enterprise pursuits in Baofu, which owns the land the place the raided Pogo sits.
DILG stated Baofu, as represented by Guo who was president of the corporate, bought eight parcels of land in Bamban final February 2019.
Guo claimed to have divested possession of Baofu when she ran for mayor, however the DILG believes the quantity she divested it for — P2.5 million — was “grossly incongruent to her funding on Baufo which is roughly eight hectares of land.”
This situation grew to become the idea of instances in opposition to Guo, for which she was positioned on preventive suspension by the Workplace of the Ombudsman.
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