Yesterday, October 25, the Ombudsman has ordered the dismissal from service of Mabilog for failing to explain an increase in his wealth of nearly P9 million within a year.
Mabilog cannot run to any other public office and he’s now ineligible to receive retirement benefits from the government.
Editor in Chief and veteran columnist of The Manila Standard Jojo Robles, revealed the possible reasons why Mabilog was “thrown under the bus” as the Liberal Party slams allegations linking Drilon and Roxas to illegal drug operations.
In his facebook post caption ”MABILOG THROWN UNDER THE BUS, explain why Mabilog was dismissed as a City Mayor of Iloilo
Mabilog cannot run to any other public office and he’s now ineligible to receive retirement benefits from the government.
Editor in Chief and veteran columnist of The Manila Standard Jojo Robles, revealed the possible reasons why Mabilog was “thrown under the bus” as the Liberal Party slams allegations linking Drilon and Roxas to illegal drug operations.
In his facebook post caption ”MABILOG THROWN UNDER THE BUS, explain why Mabilog was dismissed as a City Mayor of Iloilo
Read his Full post:
MABILOG THROWN UNDER THE BUS. The Liberal Party has accused the administration of President Duterte of attempting to demonize party bigwigs in a supposed bid to divert attention from his government’s own failings.
The LP said the allegations against Senator Franklin Drilon and failed presidential candidate Mar Roxas, as contained in an affidavit signed recently by suspected drug ring member Ricky Serenio, were part of a plot against the party.
But the LP statement was strangely silent on the same charges, based on the same affidavit, hurled against Jed Patrick Mabilog, the mayor (on indefinite leave) of Iloilo City. Mabilog has been ordered dismissed by the Office of the Ombudsman for “serious dishonesty,” after he failed to explain a significant increase in his net worth.
Even Manuel Mejorada, who filed the original charge against Mabilog in 2015, expressed surprise that the mayor was given the maximum penalty of dismissal and a permanent prohibition from holding public office.
“I am happy because this decision is a vindication for me [but] also saddened because the penalty imposed is the harshest under the law,” Mejorada said.
But I understand perfectly why the LP defended Drilon and Roxas but failed to even mention Mabilog, who happens to be a relation of Drilon. Mabilog, after all, has been ousted by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, long known for her passion for defending members of the party.
Mabilog had to be thrown under the bus to save Drilon and Roxas. He’s small fry, after all, and useful only in order to divert attention away from the real BIG party animals.
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