00:00At the same time, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ordered the banning of POGO in the country by the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission, or PAOC.
00:10Their successes in the past year.
00:13In an interview with PAOC Executive Director, Undersecretary Gilbert Cruz, in the program Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon,
00:2180% of POGO was shut down and their commission was suspended.
00:26They also continue to target guerrilla operations or small-scale POGO, particularly in Visayas and Mindanao.
00:34Usec Cruz also mentioned that the coordination of the DILG is a big help to local governments
00:42to ensure that POGO operations are no longer needed.
00:45According to PAOC, they were able to remove more than 27,000 POGO workers.
00:52This is the Bureau of Immigration.
00:56The DILG and our coordination with Secretary John B. Cremulia is good.
01:06And of course, the DOJ, because they are the ones helping us to file the case.
01:10Because the permit was no longer given to our PAG-COR.
01:14And the directive of our SILG, John B. Cremulia, is that the permits will not be renewed.
01:21The local government units cannot renew the permits, especially to the POGO hubs.
