Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III (File photo) MANILA - Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Thursday said he requested permission from President Rodrigo Duterte to consider the possibility of a ban on deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) due to "still" unpaid wages worth PHP4.6 billion. "I sent a memorandum to the President requesting his permission to consider a deployment ban to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia kung hindi nila mababayaran 'yun pera na pinaghirapan ng ating mga OFW for so many years. So 'yun po ang plano, pag-aralan namin (if they cannot pay the money that our OFWs have worked for so many years. So that's the plan, we'll study it)," he said during the Laging Handa briefing. In 2016, Bello said 11,000 OFWs in Saudi Arabia have not received their salaries, prompting Duterte to authorized "me to bring all of them home." "We repatriated our compatriots involving about PHP3 billio