26 October 2005
PCSO denies Loterya firm’s accreditation
Stumped by revelation, BM Manoy junks authorship
LINGAYEN – The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) admitted that the Small Town Lottery (STL) is still in the conceptual stage and that the agency has not accredited anybody or any group to implement the same.
This was disclosed by Earneli Dancel, operating officer of the PCSO in Urdaneta City, who was surprised to learn that a private company is already seeking to operate STL to be known as “Loterya ng Bayan” in the entire province of Pangasinan.
The Numbers Numbers Co. Inc. (NNCI) based in Makati City wrote the provincial board here September 26 this year seeking the passage of a resolution to authorize it to operate LNB in Pangasinan on experimental basis yet.
Dancel spoke during a public hearing conducted by the committees on Monetary and Economic Affairs and Public Services, and Rules, Laws, Ordinances and Privileges of the Provincial board on the proposed resolution sought by NNCI.
“The STL is still non-existent yet, sic being only imaginary,” Dancel said, as she questioned the alleged misrepresentation by NNCI, through its provincial coordinator Rolando Dee, a business man from Mangaldan, Pangasinan.
She denied NNCI’s claim that it was already granted accreditation by the PCSO but she bluntly told members of the provincial board that “only if you pas a resolution authorizing the operation of Loterya ng Bayan by Numbers Numbers Co. Inc. can we grant such accreditation.”
Moreover, Dancel declared that there is no truth to the claim of Dee that NNCI is already operating LNB in Makati City or in any part of the country, simply because STL, is still a concept being studied thoroughly by PCSO.
Based on Dancel’s admission, Provincial Board Member Emmanuel Carancho withdrew his resolution seeking to authorize the company to operate the LNB in Pangasinan. His withdrawal finally booted out an attempt to introduce another numbers game in Pangasinan that would likely take the place of the illegal “jueteng” which already grounded to a halt in most parts of the country.
Carancho cited newspaper reports that even Gov. Victor Agbayani is against the move to make Pangasinan as the experimental base for a new numbers game.
Even the lawyer of NNCI, Cesar Cariño, failed to answer questions raised by board members as to what kind of business NNCI is into.
Board Member Angel Baniqued brought out a copy of the articles of incorporation of the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that stated it is into technology provider services and not into numbers game.
Observers hailed the action of the provincial board on the matter because even Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese is opposed to the operation of LNB, which he believed is “a clone” of jueteng. (PNA)
LINGAYEN – The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) admitted that the Small Town Lottery (STL) is still in the conceptual stage and that the agency has not accredited anybody or any group to implement the same.
This was disclosed by Earneli Dancel, operating officer of the PCSO in Urdaneta City, who was surprised to learn that a private company is already seeking to operate STL to be known as “Loterya ng Bayan” in the entire province of Pangasinan.
The Numbers Numbers Co. Inc. (NNCI) based in Makati City wrote the provincial board here September 26 this year seeking the passage of a resolution to authorize it to operate LNB in Pangasinan on experimental basis yet.
Dancel spoke during a public hearing conducted by the committees on Monetary and Economic Affairs and Public Services, and Rules, Laws, Ordinances and Privileges of the Provincial board on the proposed resolution sought by NNCI.
“The STL is still non-existent yet, sic being only imaginary,” Dancel said, as she questioned the alleged misrepresentation by NNCI, through its provincial coordinator Rolando Dee, a business man from Mangaldan, Pangasinan.
She denied NNCI’s claim that it was already granted accreditation by the PCSO but she bluntly told members of the provincial board that “only if you pas a resolution authorizing the operation of Loterya ng Bayan by Numbers Numbers Co. Inc. can we grant such accreditation.”
Moreover, Dancel declared that there is no truth to the claim of Dee that NNCI is already operating LNB in Makati City or in any part of the country, simply because STL, is still a concept being studied thoroughly by PCSO.
Based on Dancel’s admission, Provincial Board Member Emmanuel Carancho withdrew his resolution seeking to authorize the company to operate the LNB in Pangasinan. His withdrawal finally booted out an attempt to introduce another numbers game in Pangasinan that would likely take the place of the illegal “jueteng” which already grounded to a halt in most parts of the country.
Carancho cited newspaper reports that even Gov. Victor Agbayani is against the move to make Pangasinan as the experimental base for a new numbers game.
Even the lawyer of NNCI, Cesar Cariño, failed to answer questions raised by board members as to what kind of business NNCI is into.
Board Member Angel Baniqued brought out a copy of the articles of incorporation of the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that stated it is into technology provider services and not into numbers game.
Observers hailed the action of the provincial board on the matter because even Archbishop Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese is opposed to the operation of LNB, which he believed is “a clone” of jueteng. (PNA)
