Sa isang press conference, nagpahayag ng pagkabahala si Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian kaugnay ng umano’y iregularidad sa pag-issue ng birth certificate at pagproseso ng late registration. Ito ay matapos ang ilang mga nakalap na impormasyon ng senador kaugnay sa pagkatao ni Bamban Mayor Alice Guo.
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00:00Q. As an establisher, will there be a lot of laws that were violated by Mayor Goh and his family?
00:06A. Well, first of all, our birth certificate system was violated.
00:12As I said, they're doing a late registration to give him Filipino citizenship.
00:19Because if you're a Filipino citizen, you can start a business, you can buy land, you can run for public office.
00:28And if we look at it, it's scary because with this late registration, he was able to run.
00:36He really won.
00:37As I said, we were able to win this case because this candidate won.
00:41He was able to bring his fake birth certificate.
00:44And what's scary about this is that there might be another case like this in the Philippines.
00:50We just don't know right now because it's not high-profile.
00:53But according to the Philippine Statistics Authority, they have 300 cases of late registration that are irregular,
01:03of which 60-plus were able to obtain passports.
01:07So, we'll see that we really need to do a big reform in issuing birth certificates and late registration.
01:16On the issue of Pogo and Mayor Alice Guo, do you think this is still a long way to go or is it almost over?
01:25I hope it's almost over because we'll see that it's not just human trafficking, scamming, and torture that happened.
01:36Even the abuse of our process and system of late registration.
01:41These criminal syndicates are looking for a hole.
01:45If we allow them and we won't do anything to our late registration,
01:50these syndicates will become Filipinos.
01:52They won't be Filipinos for long because they can see a hole.
01:56And the late registration is run by the LGU.
02:00So, we're talking about 1,600 civil registrar that they can go to and request.
02:08Because anywhere you go, you can issue a late registration birth certificate and automatically you'll become Filipino.