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Administration lawmakers are split over the proposed ban on Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators .House human rights panel chairperson and Manila lawmaker Benny Abante has called on the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation to prohibit the operation of POGO s while House ways and means panel chairperson and Albay lawmaker Joey Salceda wants the gaming regulator to instead weed out delinquent POGO s.“We should ban this.
Salceda said that the 2023 figures are only exceeded by 2019 collections, the first full year of legalized POGOs when Pagcor collected some P7.96 billion of revenues from 298 licensees.“As far as a supposed ‘phase-out’ is concerned, that’s the kind of phase-out I fully support: You phase out the bad and mediocre licensees,” Salceda said.“You don’t phase the whole industry out. You enforce the law,” Salceda said.
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