Skipping the succeeding senate sessions after the issuance of arrest warrant caused upset not only with the senate officials and government authorities but the public as well. The suspended mayor found a good excuse from attending the senate hearings albeit unaccepted by the senate committee conducting the investigation. What the suspended mayor is doing is clearly an upfront if not an insult to our country’s legal system and processes.
After lying in the many sessions conducted by the senate committee, she now has the boldness to avoid the hearings. The public had witnessed how the suspended mayor kept repeating her incredible tale that she was homeschooled by a tutor while growing in a farm in the town where she is the present mayor. Aside from her farm life story, she too was found lying about her parents and her family. It took sometime for the senate to obtain documentary evidence that her parents were Chinese and she had siblings. The documents also showed that her mother was not the housemaid she mentioned at the outset of the senate investigation.
While the senate had been strict with other resource persons, too quick to cite in contempt those found lying, it was too kind with the suspended mayor. In many instances, the senate committee found the suspended mayor lying but had not cited her in contempt. Had the senate cited the suspended mayor in contempt on the very first instance that they found her lying, she could have been jailed long ago. It could have saved the government with the problem of looking for her this time that she disappeared. The authorities are now in a quandary trying to find leads about the whereabouts of the suspended mayor.
The noose that would have been tightened earlier is now a loophole that the suspended mayor had passed through in skipping the senate hearings. She disappeared from public view and is nowhere to be found by the authorities. Recent efforts had the authorities empty handed despite surveillance activities aimed at finding her hiding place. Raids in the farm and the buildings where online gambling operations are conducted turned negative.
Truly, kindness is sometimes abused especially if the subject recipient is one who is known for her abusive character. The fact that the suspended mayor had the capacity to use her resources to subvert the law and anything that would put her in peril should have forewarned the authorities from the outset of the investigation. She is now in hiding and the authorities are taking all collaborative efforts to locate her. Going from the different places she had access to could be a challenge to the authorities. Amid these developments, all government agencies must keep in mind that the suspended mayor owns many vehicles and a helicopter which she could easily be used in her permanent skip.
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