Calling on the AdBoard of the Philippines.

A group of disgruntled Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) are calling the attention of the Adboard on the recent television ad of presidentiable, Senator Manny Villar. These OFWs, whom I will not be mentioning at this point since they fear of reprisals from the Villar camp, are accusing Villar of “false advertising”. They say that Villar’s camp is not really helping OFWs with labor problems and instead, only do “referrals”. The plight of OFWs, they say, is being used for “political purposes” by Villar to advance his presidential ambitions.

One of the OFWs who sent me an email, say that her brother lies sick in an undisclosed hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He wants to go home.

She called up the “OFW Hotline” of Villar. Villar’s staff promised to help her and her sick brother. However, what she and her family got was a referral letter. The letter stated that the DFA and the POEA would better help her expatriate her sick brother and there’s nothing that Villar could do at this point.

She pleaded to the Villar staff to at least provide some airfare for her brother. The staff flatly rejected her and instead told her to “get the money yourself!”. She reminded the staff of Villar’s TV ad which says that Villar funded the airfare of OFWs in trouble. And you know what the staff told the unfortunate lady? ” Don’t believe what you see on television. Villar is not the kind who’ll help beggars.”

Poor lady. She called up Villar, believing that he’ll do what he promised to do in those TV ads, only to find out that Villar was “overpromising” in his ad, a violation of AdBoard rules.

What happened to that age-old dictum of “Truth in Advertising”? What happened to Villar’s slogan of ” don’t allow those who work for their families suffer”?

How unfortunate that these politicians, especially Villar, would lie and stare us straight in our faces, just to get our votes. How would someone believe what Villar is saying, when he can’t even honor the promises he said in that TV ad? Would you now believe what Villar is telling the public about his “innocence” in that Daang Hari controversy?

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