Evils of the past
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It must have been an honest-to-goodness coincidence, that the 6/55 lotto pot had reached P685 million and the sudden retaking of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) by the Office of the President through Executive Order (EO) 14. It must be, since to think otherwise would not be in a direction along the straight path of Noynoy.
Definitely, it would not look good if somebody associates the transfer of jurisdiction of PCSO and the winner of the record jackpot that would have to happen sooner or later.
Still, the PCSO under the wings of Noynoy’s office may raise some nasty imaginations flying, particularly when the election period approaches.
The PCSO, which was under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health (DoH) when it was retaken by Malacañang, was an original Palace body, but a public outrage against how it was turned into a personal money factory of the notorious conjugal plunderers resulted in it being transferred first to the supervision of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and later on, under the DoH..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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