00:00Instead of airing his side on social media,
00:02house lawmakers want to hear it up close and personal from the former presidential spokesperson.
00:08But that will only happen when the former cabinet official is actually found
00:12and apprehended by the authorities who vowed to continue tracking him down
00:17and turn him over to the custody of the lower house.
00:20Menelaus Moras returns with this report.
00:30This was the challenge of house quad committee lead chair Robert Ace Barbers
00:39to former presidential spokesperson Harry Roque, who is now the subject of a police manhunt due
00:45to the contempt and arrest order issued against him by the joint panel.
00:49In the last hearing, Roque failed to submit vital documents being asked by the quad com
00:54to determine whether he had connections with illegal pogos or not.
00:57That's why he was cited in contempt for the second time.
01:01In a video posted by Roque online, he denied once again his alleged links to pogos.
01:06He also had this in a window against the house megapanel.
01:28But this statement didn't sit well with Barbers,
01:38along with his quad com co-chair, Dan Fernandez.
01:41They insisted.
01:57As of now, the PNP has already formed special tracker teams,
02:27to intensify the search for Atty. Roque.
02:30The DALG is also confident the police force will be up to the task at hand, as they always do.
02:58They're getting all the bashings for what? For doing their job? It's so unfair. It's so unfair.
03:05The house quad committee said it will proceed with their hearing on Thursday.
03:09One of the personalities they invited is former Bamban Tarlac mayor Alice Guo.
03:28That's why they invited them.
03:30Why did we invite them?
03:32Because their testimony is also material in the hearing we started on illegal pogos.
03:40We can't invite them.
