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

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AFFIDAVIT.COMPI.AINT

resident of No. 4 San Jose Street, Br5r. Tap-oc, Molo, Iloilo City, under oath, hereby depose and say, that:

I, JED PATRICK E. MABII,OG, of legal age, married, Filipino and

r. I am the incumbent Mayor of Iloilo City and the former Vice-Mayor and Sangguniang Panlungsod mernber. I hereby formally charge the following persons for the crime of LIBE! as punished under Art. 355 of the Revised Penal Code, namely:
r.a. Columnist MAI{IIEL 'BOY" ME IORADA' Publisher and Chairman ROMMEL S. YNION and Editor-in-Chief and General Manager JUNEP

OCAMPO of THE NEWS TODAY, all of legal age with business office address at z"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 with business 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 and confederating to malign my person, character and honor caused the publication through The News Today, Opinion Section page S (Vol. rz No. So), respectively, entitled Good governance in the column Coffeebreak written by Columnist Manuel "Boy" Mejorada, printed, circulated and published first in Iloilo City on even 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 ethical standards of journalism, contained malicious imputations of a crime(s), vice or defect, with bad intentions and unjustifiable motives, purl]osely to malign, dishonor, discredit, insult and assassinate my charaeter and good reputation to
the 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 and accountability. He rs dishonest and makes lying an offieial poliW. Xil{ Obuiouslg, he hos deetrt secrets to hide, to o point thqt one medis 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 tells a lie. He has also learned the dark art of making promises he doesn'tintend.tofulfill. He ehanges his mindrrsmany asfour times a day. He is a nightmare uhen measured in the standards of good gauefnance.