Did stubborn PCSO employees trigger Duterte's order vs gambling?

President Rodrigo Duterte's surprise order is borne of his frustration over supposedly corrupt PCSO personnel resisting their transfers to other sectors, says an insider
FRUSTRATION. President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed impatience with his fight against corruption. Malacañang photo
Many a person's Friday night was ruined when Malacañang aired President Rodrigo Duterte's "special message" in which he ordered a stop to all gaming operations regulated by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PSCO).
Aired late night on Friday, July 26, the video was a surprise to many. Even more so when the next day, PCSO officials said they would ask the President to reconsider his order, indicating they did not agree with it and would have likely advised against it.
So what triggered Duterte's blanket order?
A source close to the President said that while Duterte has long raged over PCSO corruption, what drove him to issue a new directive was word that allegedly corrupt PCSO officials and employees were fighting a PCSO board decision to reassign them to another sector.
Duterte read the report on Thursday, July 25, prompting him to summon new PCSO general manageer Royina Garma for a meeting on Friday. Some hours later, Malacañang aired his verbal order against PCSO gaming formats.
The report included documents showing that Assistant General Manager of the Branch Operations Sector Remeliza Gabuyo resisting a board decision to transfer her to the office of the General Manager of the Management Sector.
The letter, dated March 14, informed PCSO chairman of the board and then officer-in-charge Anselmo Pinili, that her transfer cannot be enforced since she had appealed it before the Civil Service Commission.

She cited Section 13 of the Omnibus Rules on Appointments and Other Human Resource Action which states that employees may appeal a reassignment order within 15 days if they believe it is not justified. The rules also say that the reassignment "shall not be executory" pending the appeal
SOURCE: RAPPLER

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