FILE PHOTO: Native authorities items (LGUs) is being urged by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian to go an ordinance banning Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) inside their jurisdictions. | PHOTO: Bibo Nueva España/Senate PRIB
MANILA, Philippines — Native authorities items (LGUs) have been urged by a senator to go an ordinance banning Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) inside their jurisdictions.
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian on Friday supplied this unsolicited recommendation to native chief executives as latest raids sparked speculations that native leaders might have been permitting the operations of unlawful offshore gaming corporations.
“Ang payo ko sa ating mga native chief executives ay gumawa na ng ordinance para i-ban na ‘yung Pogos ng mga native authorities items dahil malalagay sila sa alanganin ‘pag nag-operate itong Pogo sa kanila eh,” he mentioned in an interview over Radyo 630.
(My recommendation to our native chief executives is to go an ordinance to ban Pogos as this can put them in a precarious state of affairs as soon as the Pogos begin working of their areas.)
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“Bigyan kayo ng halimbawa, itong sa Porac napakadaling gamitin na dahilan na ‘hindi ko alam ‘yung nangyayari dun’ pero mayor ka eh, kung hindi mo alam ‘yan malaking problema tayo sa patakbo sa iyong lugar,” the senator added.
(I’ll offer you an instance, in Porac, it’s very straightforward to make use of an excuse that you simply don’t know what’s taking place there however you’re the mayor and also you don’t know? Then we now have an enormous downside on the way you run your space)
The raid in Porac city in Pampanga province final June 4 was prompted by experiences that Pogo agency Fortunate South 99 Outsourcing Inc. was getting used for human trafficking. Greater than 190 Filipino and overseas employees have been rescued from that raid.
However Porac Mayor Jaime Capil was fast to dismiss speculations that he’s a protector of the offshore gaming agency.
In the meantime, Tarlac’s Bamban city Mayor Alice Guo was implicated in one other unlawful Pogo agency raided by authorities in March this 12 months.
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Documentary proof supposedly linking Guo to Zuan Yuan Know-how Inc have been reportedly discovered throughout the raid. Guo, nevertheless, repeatedly denied involvement in Pogo.
In keeping with Gatchalian, LGUs might prohibit Pogos of their areas similar to what his brother, Mayor Wes Gatchalian, did in Valenzuela Metropolis.
“Meron kaming Pogo ban ordinance dito sa Valenzuela,” he identified in a Viber message.
As chairman of the Senate committee on methods and means, the senator performed a probe into the impression of offshore gaming operations within the nation.
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His committee later advisable the everlasting banning of Pogos nationwide.
