Wish Illegal Number Game Jueteng
Around
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Vice mayors in Pangasinan these days are anxious as
the filing of the certificate of candidacy (CoC) will be on Thursday because
they are financially handicapped to the rush of solicitors who will exploit
their candidacy, a vice mayor of a Central Pangasinan town lamented.
“The filing will be on October 11-12 to 15-17 this
month and election will be on May 13, 2019. Can you imagine the waves of
indigents, public employees like teachers, folks in the barangays who need
monies for their medical problems, Christmas programs, fiestas and basketball
uniforms,” he
told this paper.
The number two chief executive of a first class
burgeoning town cited that he and his fellow vice mayors would have no money
problem if illegal game jueteng still exist.
“When President Rodrigo Duterte became president in
June 2016 jueteng was stopped on the following year and it was replaced by the
small town lottery (STL), then our ingreso from the maintainer of jueteng
stopped, too,” he
deplored.
Many vice mayors in these Pangasinan towns were
recipients of the P25 thousand a week average during the heyday of the illegal
number games that were drawn under the acacia tree to dupe the poor gullible
bettors.
A former supervisor of jueteng in a town in the
mammoth province narrated:
“Noong sa jueteng pa ako kami-kami na lang ang
nagsasabi kung ano ang mananalo na numero”.
