MAR’S PATHETIC LIE AT GMA’S EXPENSE!

For the third or fourth time, I saw a campaign advertisement of Mar Roxas describing him as the man responsible for the immense growth of the business process outsourcing (call center) industry.

So before Roxas FOOLS ANYBODY, let’s set the records straight. Here excerpts from a news story published in Manila Standard WAY BACK IN MARCH 2016 wherein a call center industry leader SPECIFIED that credit for the BPO success should go to then President and now Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. This is the link: http://manilastandard.net/news/top-stories/201042/bpo-industry-pioneer-gloria-not-mar-did-it.html:

Industry pioneer Oscar Sañez, who led IT and Business Processing Association of the Philippines from 2007 to 2011, disputed Roxas’ claim and said the industtry’s phenomenal growth should go to Arroyo.

Sañez said there were only 2,400 call center workers in 2000 when Roxas was named DTI secretary and he served less than a year because he resigned in 2001 at the height of the second People Power uprising against then President Joseph Estrada. Although he was later re-appointed by Arroyo, he resigned the DTI portfolio in 2003 because he wanted to run for senator.

While Roxas was attending to his politics, Sañez said the industry grew on an average of 65 percent per annum over a decade and had nearly half a million workers by the end of 2009 which was Mrs. Arroyo’s last full year in office.

Even when Roxas was no longer in the DTI, total export revenues generated by the IT-BPO industry grew from only $1.3 billion in 2003 to $8.9 billion in 2010.  “I know how much the business process offshoring and outsourcing sector owes  Mrs. Arroyo.  We are proud to describe ourselves as a successful model of real private public partnership or PPP.”

He said the Arroyo administration’s support to the industry included the creation of the ITBPAP, creation of  the Commission on Information and Communication Technology, providing investor support through the accreditation of buildings used by the industry, completion of infrastructure projects like airports, and training vouchers from the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority worth over P800 million from 2007-09.

Let me add: Sanez’s clarification has NEVER BEEN DISPUTED OR PROVEN AS FALSE by Roxas or any of his allies. Anybody correct me, IMMEDIATELY, if I’m wrong.

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