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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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Sunday, January 15, 2017
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ILOILO City – Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, shamed publicly as a coddler of drug traffickers, seeks a meeting with President Rodrigo Duterte, according to his spokesperson Atty. Mark Piad.
“Yes, I believe he has the intention to do so,” Piad told Panay News.
But as to when, Piad said, the city mayor has yet to discuss with him the details of the plan.
Mabilog was one of the four mayors in Iloilo named by the President in Aug. 7, 2016 as drug protectors, a tag they all denied. The three others were Siegfredo Betita of Carles, Alex Centena of Calinog and Mariano Malones of Maasin.
The Iloilo City mayor was again mentioned by the President during a closed-door meeting with the country’s mayors in Malacañang on Jan. 11.
In an interview, Maasin’s Mayor Malones disclosed that the President told mayors who wanted to talk to him to set an appointment and he is ready to face them.
Malones revealed he sought a meeting with the President to clear his name right after the latter named him last year.
Mabilog maintained that since he entered government service as a city councilor in 2004, he had kept his honor, integrity and accountability to the public.
“Along with this resolve came numerous awards and recognitions attesting to my determined effort to lead Iloilo City to become a premiere city that it is now. This included my uncompromising stand against illegal drugs. My programs against illegal drugs, since I became Mayor, have always been consistent,” he stressed.
According to Alimodian, Iloilo’s Mayor Geefre Alonsabe who also attending the meeting with Duterte, the President was in a bad mood when he faced the mayors.
He reminded the mayors he was serious in his drug war, said Alonsabe, and he instructed police chiefs to shoot their mayors involved in illegal drugs.
Meanwhile, a, Iloilo 2nd District mayor wondered how reliable was the President’s intelligence information on Mabilog.
At one point during last week’s meeting, the President referred to Mabilog as a relative of slain suspected Iloilo City drug lord Melvin Odicta Sr.
“Nagsalâ sya. Hambal ‘ya kamag-anak ni Mayor Jed si Odicta (He got it wrong. He said Mayor Jed was a relative of Odicta),” the mayor told Panay News.
The mayor, however, asked that he be not identified.
Odicta and wife Meriam were shot to death by still unidentified assassins last Aug. 29, 2016 in Malay, Aklan three weeks after the President tagged Mabilog a drug coddler./PN
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