Former Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog — Photo by Grig C. Montegrande

ILOILO CITY — Former Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog said on Friday, May 15, that his appointment as undersecretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) should dispel continued notions of his alleged links to the city’s illegal drug trade.

Mabilog held a ceremonial oath-taking in his hometown on Friday at the University of the Philippines Visayas, just two days after his more intimate inauguration at the DILG office.

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The former mayor is now holding the department’s Public Safety portfolio, succeeding career executive Serafin Barretto, Jr.FEATURED STORIES