Senator JV Ejercito on Wednesday said he believes more Chinese citizens, like dismissed Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo, are holding local government positions, some of them mayors and councilors, across the country.
The senator made the remark in reference to the latest allegation that Guo is a Chinese spy whose 2022 campaign was “arranged by the Chinese state security.”
“I am a national official. I came from a Chinese school, I can distinguish ‘yung accent and the look [of] those who were really Chinoys (Chinese-Filipinos),” said Ejercito at the Kapihan sa Senado forum.
“I have met a few people who are already in office…Elected officials…There are those from the local government units. Some are perhaps councilors, while others are mayors – I’ve met some who seem like they didn’t grow up here,” he added.
Ejecito said the Commision on Elections (Comelec) should be vigilant so “we can prevent another Alice Guo (from) being able to run again in our government.”
Meanwhile, an official of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) on Wednesday said it is too early to tell if Jessica Francisco — or “Mary Ann Maslog” — would be useful in the investigation of Guo or just a nuisance.
“Maybe she really has something to say. But it will really depend on how good an investigator or an interviewer you are to ferret out the truth, if any,” PAOCC spokesperson Dr. Winston Casio told reporters in an ambush interview at the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Casio said Maslog has yet to contribute any information to the investigation.
“Right now she’s only a nuisance to the investigation,” he said.
