FOLLOWING a 72-hour deadline given by Mayor Benjamin Lim, the police in Dagupan seized 31 slot machines called video ‘karera’, including the banned fruit game, all locally known as “ameneng’. 

This is in compliance with a memorandum of Lim he issued last Tuesday giving the police within 72 hours to clear Dagupan of all video karera machines which were the subject of numerous complaints by pupils, students, parents and teachers. 

Alarmed by these complaints, Lim earlier said he was prepared to fire Police Chief Edgar Basbas from Dagupan if he is unable to comply with his order to eradicate all gambling machines being operated in the city within the specified deadline.     

The    ultimatum prompted the police to seize 31 video karera machines within 12 hours, but not a single operator of these machines was arrested. 

Observers, however, believe the number is only a drop in the bucket in view of reports that more than 100 units were reported to have been operating in the city.  

Mayor Lim has not given his reaction to the police’s   failure to arrest operators.  

According  to the police, 10 of these 31  gambling machines were seized  in Mayombo, five in Bonuan Boquig, four in Bolosan, three in Lucao, two each in Bonuan Gueset and Tebeng; one each in Pantal-Arellano and Barangay IV. 

Three of these gambling machines were reportedly abandoned by their still unknown owners along a barangay road.  APE 

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