FORMER Iloilo City mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog told a congressional panel Thursday he was not the drug protector that former president Rodrigo Duterte made him out to be in 2017.
He also told the quad committee of a plot to have him implicate opposition leaders led by former Senate president Franklin Drilon and former Interior secretary and presidential candidate Mar Roxas in the drug trade, in exchange for taking him off Duterte's so-called narco-list.In an emotional appearance at the panel, Mabilog said he was forced to abandon his sworn duty as Iloilo City mayor because of fears for his safety.
'Immediately after that call, my phone rang, this time another general called me and said do not return, your life is in danger.We went straight to the US and applied for political asylum. We were lucky that we were given political asylum in the US, proof that there is no proof in the wrongful accusations that were hurled against me,' Mabilog said in Filipino.
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