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00:00We will talk to Senator Sherwin Gatchalian. Good morning and welcome to Balitang Hali.
00:07Good morning, Raffy. Good morning to our listeners.
00:11Were you surprised by the announcement of the President of his zone even though the calls to ban POGO are coming one after the other?
00:18I was surprised because I expected that he would say it in the peace and order portion.
00:25But our President made it a grand finale with a better impact.
00:32I am thankful to him because he gave a clear message to the country that POGO is no longer allowed and will not be allowed to operate in our country.
00:46How big was the hearing you held regarding the President's decision to ban POGO in the whole country?
00:53Actually, Raffy, senators have been recommending for a long time to ban POGO.
00:59As early as 2022, when crimes are slowly emerging and the issues of human trafficking are increasing,
01:12the Senate has recommended to ban POGO in our country.
01:20But his operation is still ongoing and we have seen that their criminal activities are getting deeper.
01:30We have seen human trafficking, torture, and now money laundering are emerging. POGO hubs are also very active.
01:39Even though we can still discover a lot about POGO,
01:43how about the Filipino workers? At the end of the year, all POGO workers should be gone. Will they all be helped?
01:50Raffy, we will not let our POGO workers go.
01:55There are around 20,000 of our POGO workers.
02:01We will ensure that they will be able to get a job or a livelihood.
02:10The Department of Labor has a large fund for Cash for Work and Temporary Employment.
02:16We will ensure that they will be able to get help from the Department of Labor.
02:22Do you have a plan or a law to prevent POGO or anything negative from happening again in the Philippines?
02:33Actually, Raffy, POGO also opened another criminal activity that we have seen.
02:40These are pecking birth certificates.
02:42This is one of the proposals of the committee to tighten and reform the birth certificate process in our country.
02:52We have also seen in the issue of Bamban POGO Hub that POGO is not the only one with criminal activities.
03:00Even our countrymen are involved in illegal activities like pecking birth certificates.
03:08We have seen that because we have a late registration process, it was abused by foreigners.
03:15This is one of our legislative proposals to tighten our birth certificate process.
03:22We will now go to the investigation of Mayor Alice Goh.
03:25What is the possible implication of the President's order in your investigation against the Mayor?
03:29We will ensure that he will be arrested and jailed.
03:33He has been hiding from the Senate for almost a week.
03:37This is against our law and our process.
03:42He will also be disrespected by the Senate and the institution.
03:46We will not stop until he is arrested and jailed.
03:51We will also ensure that our enforcement agents will file a case against him
03:57because he does not respect our process and our law.
04:05Very quickly, do you have a higher official of the government that can be affected by the POGO issue now that the President has ordered it?
04:14We are hearing names and there are briefings.
04:18In the Executive Session briefing, it came out that POGO is spreading and they are talking to many politicians and enforcement agencies.
04:29We also said this in the last interviews.
04:31That is what we will also look into.
04:34Even so, because POGO is banned, I think these activities will slowly disappear.
04:42We also want to know who are the people behind these POGO hubs.
04:47Whether they are local or foreign, we will continue our investigation until we know the personalities behind these POGO hubs.
04:56Of course, even without POGO, there should still be accountability.
04:58Thank you very much for your time this afternoon.
05:01Thank you, Rafi.
05:02This is Senator Sherwin Gatchalian.
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