By Meanne Corvera
Eagle News Service
Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III on Tuesday filed a cyberlibel complaint against blogger Edward Angelo Dayao after he called him and other senators “lapdogs” of Malacañang.
Sotto filed the complaint before the Pasay City Prosecutors Office to take to task Dayao for his comment in his “silentnomore.ph” blog that came after Sotto and six others –Senators Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, Richard Gordon, Manny Pacquiao, Gregorio Honasan II, Juan Miguel Zubiri, and Cynthia Villar—did not sign the opposition’s Resolution 516 that condemned alleged extrajudicial killings in the country.
In his 12-page complaint, Sotto could not let pass a comment that was made without any basis and that was derogatory to him.
Sotto did not ask for any damages.
Based on the National Bureau of Investigation’s inquiry, Dayao has left the country for Singapore.
Apart from the silentnomore.ph blog, Dayao also handles 22 other sites where he posts his comments.
