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QUEZON CITY (SDN) — For more than three months now, the House of Representatives’ super-panel dubbed the Quad Committee has been conducting public hearings on issues about the now-banned Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs), Chinese syndicates, illegal drugs trade, and extra-judicial killings (EJKs).
The House created the Quad Com in August this year comprised of the Committees on Dangerous Drugs, Public Order and Safety, Human Rights, and Public Accounts. Its myriad tasks is to dig deeper into the bottom of the complex and deeply entrenched criminal activities connected to POGOs.
Of course, the EJKs were borne of the previous administration of then President Rodrigo R. Duterte, the first Mindanao to occupy imperial Manila’s Malacañang Palace along the historic Pasig River, Manila stretch.
Legislative inquiries are made primarily in aid of legislation but could also have far-reaching implications in so many ways, especially that the Quad Com has emphasized its determination to bring to the bar of justice those found to have contributed either directly or indirectly to criminal activities.
On November 7, the Quad Comm continued its hearings at the House to probe deeper into the illegal drugs trade and the infamous EJKs. — Art Torres (/)