FORMER Tagbilaran City Mayor Atty. Dan Neri Lim has issued a statement on the dismissal of the “inciting to sedition” case against him and critic Willy Ramasola and DYRD/Bohol Chronicle Editor Peter Dejaresco filed by Gov. Arthur Yap.
This came after the Makati City Prosecutor’s Office has dismissed the inciting to sedition filed by Gov. Arthur C. Yap.
The Makati City Prosecutor’s Office’s scrapping of Yap’s complaint issued on May 31, 2022 on Yap’s complaint was due to lack of probable cause.
Lim said that it is “simple harassment” against the critics of the governor.
He added that the governor’s attempt to bring his critics to court of law is tantamount to “curtailment of press freedom and of expression.”
The governor’s action is not only to silence his critics but it’s also an abuse of authority, the former city mayor added.
And for BTMA president, Ric Obedencio, the dismissal of the said case is like “justice is served. The BTMA have to keep fighting still,” he added.
The dismissal of the said case is the second whammy the outgoing governor got in May, 2022.
The first is that when Yap was trounced by 2nd district Rep. Aris Aumentado in the gubernatorial race in May 9, 2022 elections.
The former got only 283,903 votes against the latter’s historic tally 469,736 or a margin of 185,833 votes, the biggest, so far, in the electoral history of the province. (rvo)
