FORT GREGORIO DEL PILAR, Baguio City — The Philippine Military Academy Matikas Class of 1983 has slammed the vilifaction campaign of jueteng bagwoman-turned-whistleblower Sandra Cam and her notorious gambling lord friend Atong Ang against their mistah, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office general manager Alexander Balutan.
Every cavalier who met Balutan, who earned the moniker “mandirigma” (warrior), during Saturday’s Alumni Homecoming, gave him words of encouragement to stand his ground against the likes of Cam and Ang who were “moving heaven and earth” to monopolize the operation of Small Town Lottery (STL) nationwide.
“Classmates and other Cavaliers (alumni) of the premier military school in Asia took turns approaching him and asking how he was doing amid all the unfounded accussations being hurled against him and the agency,” Balutan’s deputy spokesman, Florante Solmerin, said.
Among these classmates are former military chiefs retired generals Ricardo Visaya and Eduardo Año, now administrator of the National Irrigation Adminstration and officer-in-charge of the Department of Interior and Local Government, respectively.
Balutan, a retired Marine major general and former vice commander of the Philippine Navy, was appointed PCSO general manager by President Rodrigo Duterte in September 2016.
No less than Duterte has cleared Balutan on Cam’s media gimmick regarding the PCSO’s Christmas celebration.