CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – All claims of jueteng notwithstanding, operators of the Small Town Lottery (STL) in Pampanga collected at least P2.402 billion in six years, registering its highest-ever annual gross in 2011 amounting to almost P.6 billion.
The Apalit town-based Suncove Corp., in its sales and allocations of sales proceeds recently e-mailed to Punto!, disclosed that it had gross sales of P2,402,772,686 billion since it began operations on September 28,2006. The sales report was until September 30, 2012.
In 2011, Suncove reported P578,051,042 in gross sales. In the first nine months of 2012, its gross sales totalled P430,254,702.
Suncove averages at least P47 million in monthly gross collection in nine months of 2012 almost the same monthly average when they recorded the highest-ever collection last year.
In the same report, 37 percent of the total gross sales in six years were given to the following: Bureau of Internal Revenue, 5 percent (P75,625,222.56); municipality, 10 percent (P217,876,684.54); province, 5 percent (P108,938,342.27); district, 2.5 percent (P54,469,171.13); Philippine National Police (local), 4.5 percent (P98,044,508.04); PNP (national), 5 percent (P10,893,834.23); charity fund, 7.5 percent (P163,119,188.81); and print, 2 percent (P31,966,471.80).
Suncove, based on the same report, was able to turn over P108,939, 342 million to the PNP local and national offices hounded by the lack of personnel, service guns and vehicles, operations’ allowances and even funds to pay pending electric bills since democracy the restoration of democracy to the country in 1986.
The report showed gross sales reaching P38.5 million in three months in 2006; P253.4 million in 2007, P361.4 million in 2008,; P346.9 million in 2009; P394.2 million in 2010; P578 million in 2011; and P430.2 million in nine months of 2012.
This report came amid the investigation ordered by Interior and Local Government Sec. Mar Roxas II on the alleged proliferation of “jueteng” in Pampanga. He ordered Chief Supt. Edgardo Ladao, Central Luzon police director, to stop the illegal numbers game.
Roxas gave the order during the Regional Peace and Order Council (RPOC) meeting at the Oxford Hotel in Clark attended by all Region III governors except Zambales Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr.
For his part, Ladao said he is willing to resign if it was proven that there was resurgence of jueteng in Pampanga.
Senior Supt. R’Win Pagkalinawan, Pampanga police director, denied reports that jueteng continued to be played in the province.
