Public should not patronize ‘peryahan ng bayan’ of Globaltech

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) has said the Deed of Authority (DOA) of Globaltech Mobile Online Corp. has already expired in March 2016, and it was not given a new authority to play the peryahan ng bayan.

In other words, the public should not patronize its illegal operations, which uses PCSO’s name and logo.

The issue is already being heared in the court, but some people are using “black propaganda” through the media who were “greased” to say PCSO has already lost the case, and that there’s a “Congressional approval.” On top of that, they peddle the fiction that peryahan is legal and not the Small Town Lottery or STL of PCSO. These are just

some of their irregular activities to brainwash people and hide the truth about the DOA issue and that Globaltech should now stop its peryahan operation.

For everyone’s information, PCSO, based on its Charter, (Republic Act 1169), was given exclusive authority to operate sweepstakes, lottery and other similar games nationwide to generate funds for the national government’s medical and charity programs.

In 2018, PCSO posted historic high total revenue of P63.55 billion from its lottery games, benefitting almost half a million people. Peryahan ng bayan has not contributed a single cent to this. So, why are we going to patronize it if this game will only make the people operating it richer? The public is not benefitting from this, especially those who need medical assistance.

If there’s a peryahan operating in your town, do not patronize it— that’s the position of PCSO through the leadership of General Manager Alexander “Mandirigma” Balutan and Chairman Anselmo Simeon Pinili, including all the members of PCSO board of directors.

Official documents show the PCSO board has trashed the DOA of Globatech because the latter has not been remitting more or less P50 million as specified in the contract. The unremitted total has already reached P100 million, which has ballooned to P506 million if we include penalty charges.

If that amount went to the medical assistance program for sick patients, it would have benefitted the needy.

Mandirigma once said, PCSO will continue to enforce President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order 18 (all-out war against illegal gambling) and Republic Act 9287 (An Act Increasing the Penalties for Illegal Numbers Games, Amending Certain Provisions of Presidential Decree 1602) to stop jueteng, masiao, swertres, peryahan and other types of illegal numbers games in the country.

Peryahan should not be allowed to operate anywhere in the country, especially in Quezon City, Pangasinan, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque, Palawan, Rizal, Catanduanes, Negros Occidental, Cebu, Bohol, Agusan del Norte, Davao del Sur, Misamis Oriental, South Cotabato and Zamboanga del Sur. Globaltech’s DOA in those areas has already expired!