Tag: NPF

“I hate gambling!” – Duterte says he fired Nayong Pilipino officials for entering into 75-year casino deal

  (Eagle News) – “I hate gambling. I will not allow it.” With this announcement, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed on Wednesday, August 8, why he fired all of the board members of the Nayong Pilipino Foundation (NPF) the previous day. The reason was simple, the President said.  The NPF board members and management entered into a lease contract that will allow casino gambling for a period of 75 years in a 9.5-hectare property owned by […]

Duterte sacks Nayong Pilipino Foundation board members

(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has sacked the board of directors of the Nayong Pilipino Foundation. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said this was over their supposed lease contract with a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s Landing International Development Ltd that was disadvantageous to the government. “In addition….the President has instructed a review of the Contract of Lease entered by NPFI with Landing Resorts Philippines Development Corp., which the Chief Executive described, in his own words, as ‘flawed,’ […]