Former Iloilo City mayor Jed Mabilog reveals besides security concerns, he sought asylum in the United States to prevent the Duterte administration from falsely linking former senators Mar Roxas and Franklin Drilon to illegal drugs.
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00:00Former Iloilo City Mayor Jed Mabilog reveals, besides security concerns, he sought asylum
00:06in the United States to prevent the Duterte administration from falsely linking former
00:10Senators Ma Rojas and Franklin Drelon to illegal drugs.
00:14He flew overseas in 2017 after he was included in former President Rodrigo Duterte's narco list.
00:20Mabilog says when he was in Japan, then-Philippine National Police Chief Bato De La Rosa called
00:25him and told him to come home.
00:27But shortly after the call, another unnamed PNP general called and warned him that if
00:32he comes home, he would be forced to point fingers at an opposition senator and a former
00:36presidential candidate as drug lords.
00:39In the House hearing, Mabilog was asked if the two personalities he was referring to
00:42were Drelon and Rojas.
00:44He said yes.
00:45Mabilog's name was not part of the original drug list but was only included later on.