Saturday, October 14, 2017

Cabinet secretary involved in STL operations

My good friend, Bobby Capco urged me to write the corrupt practices of members of the Duterte administration. Capco assures me that this administration will do something about it.

Okey, let me tell you the story of this Cabinet member who is using his position to become the biggest, if not the biggest operator of Small Town Lottery or STL here in the Philippines. 

And really, this story is very disturbing and quite unfortunate because this secretary used several ex-military men who reportedly waged a just war against an administration in previous decades. 

This ex-military men are connected in some form or another to a high ranking official of government, whom they consider as "mistah".

This mistah, according to highly credible sources, gets a monthly take from illegal gambling operators in Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao.  

When the bidding for the STL began, several well-meaning people took part of it. Others, well, they were representatives or fronts of jueteng lords. 

At the onset, the plan was note-worthy. The aim was to wrest control of grassroots gambling activities from jueteng lords and their STL fronts, and give it to legitimate groups who vowed to remit the right amounts to government. 

These groups were formed by these ex-military with collusion with men of the cabinet secretary.  This group succeeded in getting Batangas, Nueva Ecija, and other provinces. 

The mistah appointed his own representative, a young contractor, to get several provinces in Mindanao. The maverick contractor is operating the STL now there, by dismantling the old network thru assassinations. They already killed seven people there. 

Low and behold, when the contracts were already given to the group of the cabinet secretary, what do you think he did? He allowed jueteng lords in those areas to retrieve their areas of operations either by selling back the contract to them or colluding with them by asking them to become part of the corporations created for these purposes.

The Cabinet secretary knows this because he intervened in several instances. He even directly contacted the "mistah" to talk to a known jueteng lord. 

Is this corruption? Yes, it is. This cabinet secretary reportedly used his position to gain businesses from government. Nothing wrong with operating STL though. However, if you are a government official and you dip your fingers into these kinds of operations, how do you then describe what he did?

Of course, this cabinet official will just pooh-pooh this blog entry of mine. He remains very influential and strong with the President. The fact is, their ties are reportedly unbreakable.

Who is this cabinet official? 

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