PAGADIAN
CITY: Governor Antonio Cerilles has raised the anvil and declared war against
all forms of illegal gambling in the province at the same time ordered a
stronger campaign against the numbers games in the region under him.
Cerilles’
pronouncement was released last week, through Executive Order 10, reconstituting
the Task Force on Anti-Illegal Gambling to run after suspected financiers and
supporters of all forms illegal gambling in the province.
Cerilles
has named Board Member and Committee on Peace and Public Safety chair Ernesto
Mondarte, as the new task force head and provincial police director Sofronio
Ecaldre as the vice-chairman.
The
governor ordered the task force to conduct a persistent campaign against
“swertres, video karera and horse fighting” as he said he wants Zambosur to be 100
percent free of illegal gambling.
(NEWS POSTED ALSO IN HARDLINE WEEKLY, PAGADIAN CITY)