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Republic of the Philippines)Iloilo City )s"c.x----------- --------x

AFFIDAVIT.COMPI.AINT

I, JED PATRICK E. MABII,OG, of legal age, married, Filipino andresident of No. 4 San Jose Street, Br5r. Tap-oc, Molo, Iloilo City, under oath,hereby depose and say, that:

r. I am the incumbent Mayor of Iloilo City and the former Vice-Mayor andSangguniang Panlungsod mernber. I hereby formally charge the followingpersons for the crime of LIBE! as punished under Art. 355 of the Revised PenalCode, namely:

r.a. Columnist MAI{IIEL 'BOY" ME IORADA' Publisher and ChairmanROMMEL S. YNION and Editor-in-Chief and General Manager JUNEPOCAMPO of THE NEWS TODAY, all of legal age with business office address atz"d Floor Viosils Arcade, M.H. Del Pilar Street, Molo, Iloilo City, Philippines,herein referredto as RESPONDENTS;

z. The News Today is a newspaper of general circulation in Iloilo City withbusiness office add.ress at zd Floor Viosils Arcade, M.H. Del Pilar Street, Molo,Iloilo City, Philippines;

3. Sometime on March 13, 2olr2, respondents by conspiring andconfederating to malign my person, character and honor caused the publicationthrough The News Today, Opinion Section page S (Vol. rz No. So), respectively,entitled Good governance in the column Coffeebreak written by ColumnistManuel "Boy" Mejorada, printed, circulated and published first in Iloilo City oneven date. Attached is the full text of libelous article hereto referred as Annexes"A", *A-r" and "A-2";

+. Said article published by respondents, without observing the ethicalstandards of journalism, contained malicious imputations of a crime(s), vice ordefect, with bad intentions and unjustifiable motives, purl]osely to malign,dishonor, discredit, insult and assassinate my charaeter and good reputation tothe public as well as to my constituents, the exce4rts of whieh are hereby quoted:

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4.a. "Mabilog is the number one enemA of *ansparmcy andaccountability. He rs dishonest and makes lying an offieial poliW.Xil{ Obuiouslg, he hos deetrt secrets to hide, to o point thqt onemedis man k dead, and another is limping uith a hole in the leg,for simply Wing to exposethese shady deals.

But Mobilog doemT euenflinch with guilt each time he tellsa lie. He has also learned the dark art of making promises hedoesn'tintend.tofulfill. He ehanges his mindrrsmany asfour timesa day. He is a nightmare uhen measured in the standards of goodgauefnance.

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