POGO ejection must be done efficiently

THE declaration by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during his State of the Nation Address on Monday that Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) are now banned was warmly welcomed by the entire country, as it should be. Although a handful of misguided officials defied reason to advocate allowing this social cancer to go untreated because of its imagined financial benefits to the government, anyone else with an ounce of sense, including the government's economic team, almost the entire legislature, most business groups, the law enforcement community, the media, and an overwhelming majority of the public called on the President to do the right thing, and he did.