Bacolod Councilor Wilson Gamboa, Jr. filed a complaint for libel against the private operator of the Bacolod North Bound Terminal before Associate City Prosecutor Maria Lina Gonzaga at the City Prosecutor’s Office Monday.

The complaint was filed  against Crispin Chua, who had also filed five counts of libel  against him in April.

Asked for his reaction, Chua reminded Gamboa “to be humble.”

In a  press release from his office, Gamboa described the charges filed by Chua against him as a cover-up for  the countless violations of the terminal’s memorandum of agreement with the city, a diversionary tactic to sway public opinion against the truth and to freeze him from discharging his official function.

The present suit now filed before the City Prosecutor detailed the allegation of Chua before a public committee hearing conducted last January 16, that Gamboa was pushing for a “favored property” that would house the present terminal and sought certain percentage commission on toll fees, gas stations and rentable spaces, among others, it said.

This “favored property” claimed by Chua to be of interest to Gamboa is owned by the family of  Carlos Balcells, who,  in a separate public hearing conducted June 24,  clarified his position against claims by Chua pointing to Gamboa,  as abusive and corrupt, the press release said.

Balcells belied Chua’s insinuations against  Gamboa’s "interest to push" for the inclusion of his property to form part of the deal in housing the construction of the North Bound Termina, it said.

“It was paroxysm that compelled me to call Chua a pathological and congenital liar upon hearing this fabricated charges to dissuade people from the main issue which are the countless violation hounding the Northbound terminal,”  Gamboa said.

He  decried all allegations of Chua in his complaint before the City Prosecutor as “insinuation of perjurious statements that would create in the mind of the public that I am a corrupt public official.”

Gamboa said, “Because the  series of lies and deceptions were uttered by Chua in various media outlets, aside from allegations in public hearings, I am constrained to call Chua a liar in public and which the City Government of Bacolod will cite in cases it will file to  rescind  the contract of the terminal, or subsequent Ombudsman cases.”*CGS

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