Published by Bohol Sunday PostRelatives of the alleged mistress of Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos who is from Loay town cried foul after Senator Aquilino Pimentel dragged her from the on-going investigation of the National Broadband Network scandal. Denying that she was the other woman of the controversial Comelec boss, Evelyn Catherine Silagon was on nationwide television the other night after she was linked to Abalos in the Senate investigation of the NBN deal. The Post confirmed that Silagon is from Loay and she is the niece of Antonio Silagon, manager of the Loay Multi-purpose Cooperative.
The male Silagon also confirmed that Evelyn is the daughter of his elder brother Bonifacio who is now in Oroquieta City . He is a retired manager of the Philippine National Bank. During her student days, she spent her college days in one of the universities in this city. He married a prominent Tagbilaran resident where they have two children. They have since separated and her husband is already married to another woman. While in Manila , she found work at the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) where Abalos was once its head of office.
It was in her MDDA stint was talks started to circulate that she was the mistress of the former chairman. The worst part of the rumor was that she was romantically linked to the Comelec commissioner and he was the father of her eight-year-old child. Now a single mother, Silagon denied that she has amorous relation with Abalos.
At the Senate hearing last Wednesday, Abalos was accused of taking a kickback and offering bribes to facilitate the NBN project, Pimentel alluded to circulating text messages about Abalos and Silagon. The texts said he had an eight-year old daughter with Cilagon and given her four cars and three condominium units at prime Towers at Rockwell in Makati City. Informed about the alleged romantic liaison of her niece, Silagon said he will consult his lawyers if he can file damages to those who malign the good name of their family. He was speaking in behalf of his relatives in Loay who were also affected about the cruel insinuation.
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