TABUK CITY, Kalinga – As this news is being written, this city is jueteng-free.
No less than Chief of Police Bobby Glen Ganipac declared to the ZZW that the illegal numbers game no longer exists in his jurisdiction.
Ganipac could not give a definite answer though when the ZZW asked when exactly did Tabuk achieve its new status vis-a-vis jueteng only saying “nabayagen” (long ago.)
When the ZZW pressed him for a specific time, he said it could be a month.
On the other hand, a source at the City Hall had earlier told the ZZW that it was last March 22 that the gambling operation ceased.
But the ZZW is more inclined to believe the statement of a jueteng bettor who said that it was only on Monday, March 28, that the cobradors or jueteng bet collectors stopped plying their trade.
He recalled that the winning numbers in the morning and afternoon draws last Sunday were 21-1 and 17-1, respectively.
The bettor does not believe that the city has heard the last of the local jueteng operation saying that several times in the past, the activity had stopped but these only turned out to be mere lulls.
As for Ganipac, he assured the ZZW that the stoppage of the operation is for good.
When the ZZW asked him if those behind the operation stopped the activity on their own free will, Ganipac answered it was the police who stopped them.
As of press time, the ZZW could not reach the Kalinga and Apayao Religious Sector Association (KARSA), an organization of clergymen which has been waging an uphill battle against the social menace for years now, for comment.
Earlier, the ZZW had tipped the KARSA of the new development and the latter had promised to send someone to place a bet to test the veracity of the information.
The bettor the ZZW talked to estimated the daily jueteng take in the city to be at the vicinity P100,000.00.
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No less than Chief of Police Bobby Glen Ganipac declared to the ZZW that the illegal numbers game no longer exists in his jurisdiction.
Ganipac could not give a definite answer though when the ZZW asked when exactly did Tabuk achieve its new status vis-a-vis jueteng only saying “nabayagen” (long ago.)
When the ZZW pressed him for a specific time, he said it could be a month.
On the other hand, a source at the City Hall had earlier told the ZZW that it was last March 22 that the gambling operation ceased.
But the ZZW is more inclined to believe the statement of a jueteng bettor who said that it was only on Monday, March 28, that the cobradors or jueteng bet collectors stopped plying their trade.
He recalled that the winning numbers in the morning and afternoon draws last Sunday were 21-1 and 17-1, respectively.
The bettor does not believe that the city has heard the last of the local jueteng operation saying that several times in the past, the activity had stopped but these only turned out to be mere lulls.
As for Ganipac, he assured the ZZW that the stoppage of the operation is for good.
When the ZZW asked him if those behind the operation stopped the activity on their own free will, Ganipac answered it was the police who stopped them.
As of press time, the ZZW could not reach the Kalinga and Apayao Religious Sector Association (KARSA), an organization of clergymen which has been waging an uphill battle against the social menace for years now, for comment.
Earlier, the ZZW had tipped the KARSA of the new development and the latter had promised to send someone to place a bet to test the veracity of the information.
The bettor the ZZW talked to estimated the daily jueteng take in the city to be at the vicinity P100,000.00.
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