The House quad-committee (quad-comm) plans to end 2024 with a bang by inviting the alleged "King of kings" of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) to its final hearing of the year this coming Thursday, Dec. 12, says overall chairman, Surigao del Norte 2nd district Rep. Robert Ace Barbers.
00:00We will terminate the POGO hearing, actually it's supposed to be last week that we terminate it because of the recent revelation and information that there is a certain Richard Lim and a certain personality, the king of all kings of POGO, that's what they said.
00:25Chairman Dan Fernandez would like us to invite this person so that we can terminate this.
00:34This is the last hearing in POGO.
00:38Maybe EJK and drugs will continue.
00:42When is the committee report for POGO?
00:45And then if we wrap up on Thursday for the year, next week we have a presentation of the committee report in the plenary.
00:56We submitted it, we are studying it, but I'm sorry I cannot give you a copy yet until the majority of the members of the committee will approve it.
01:06And of course, even in the plenary, it needs to be approved.
01:10So what about POGO, the agenda for Thursday?
01:13POGO, drugs and EJK, the three.
01:16It's like a closing for the year.
01:19Any invited guests or new witnesses?
01:22That Mr. Richard Lim, I think he's invited and another personality, of course Alice Goh will be invited.
01:30When will she arrive?
01:31Not yet because apparently there is a problem with the schedule of the hearing in the court.
01:36So if it will not run in conflict with the schedule of the court, then definitely she has to come and she has to appear before the committee.
01:46When will the new witness be released?
01:48The new witness, again, as we always do.
01:52Surprise!
01:54You already know.
01:56We will see. EJK and drugs, these are very controversial issues that we will tackle continuously until probably we can say that we have already comprehensively tackled all the issues concerning these two topics.
